Abstract: The acceleration of the construction of digital government highlights the key role of digital technology in reshaping the form of government governance. Digital transformation has a differentiated impact on the decision-making power of different members of government organizations. Among them, street-level bureaucrats and officials working in institutions with weak digital application development capabilities are more likely to feel the sense of domination brought by the use of digital technology. In digital government, the separation between algorithmic decision-making and rigid implementation of government organizations is the latest manifestation of rational organizations in the digital era. In general, the construction of digital government is pushing the separation of decision-making and implementation within the government and that of managers and the managed, forming a trend of government organizational structure reform characterized by centralized decision-making power and administrative bureaucracy. This means that the construction of digital government may stir the revival of ideas such as technology governance and technology-based governance, while scholars need to examine the limits of technology governance and its unintended consequences in more detail. The trend of centralization of decision-making power and administrative bureaucracy in the construction of digital government has important implications for understanding government governance in the digital era.

Key words: digital government, decision-making power, bureaucracy, centralization of power, street-level bureaucrats, government organizations, the digital age, technology governance