Abstract:

As the core carrier and means to achieve the goals of preschool education, the effectiveness of government responsibility largely determines the quality of development, characterized by the resilience measurement and mechanism of government governance. It is urgent to promote the high-quality transformation of preschool education through the improvement of government responsibility efficiency. Building an indicator system for government responsibility will help to implement development responsibilities in all aspects and at multiple levels. Therefore, based on existing literature and policy analysis, the four dimensions of government responsibility in terms of resource input, process management, policy output, and result perception are defined from the perspectives of input mechanism, management mechanism, policy mechanism, and accountability mechanism. The four-dimensional structure of government responsibility - adequacy, flexibility, responsiveness, and accountability - is summarized, and the structure of the model is explored and verified from an empirical perspective. The weights of the index were determined by analytic hierarchy process and entropy weight method. And it also calculated the comprehensive level of government responsibility for preschool education. Research shows that the government's responsibility rating for preschool education in China is at a medium to high level, with significant regional and urban-rural differences. To comprehensively enhance the efficiency of fulfilling responsibilities, the starting point should be to increase investment and optimize the investment guarantee mechanism for preschool education; taking clear accountability as the support point for fulfilling responsibilities, fully implement the assessment and reward mechanism for preschool education; taking public opinion response as the starting point for fulfilling responsibilities, comprehensively ensure the responsibility transmission mechanism of preschool education; and, taking flexible management as the breakthrough point to fulfill responsibilities, comprehensively and smoothly establish a collaborative development mechanism for preschool education.

Key words: public-benefit preschool education, government responsibility, indicator system, analytic hierarchy process, entropy weight method, combined weight method