地方政府研究：从职能界定到行为过程分析

同中国行政体制改革的实践逻辑相一致,20世纪90年代以来,行政学界的地方政府研究的主题经历了从“机构改革”到“职能转变”的演变。但目前学术界的地方政府职能研究,更多的是一种规范性的职能界定和功能分析,地方政府职能转变的外部制度约束条件、内在动力机制及其变迁,以及地方政府在职能履行和角色转变过程中的行为选择逻辑等问题还没有得到深入的研究。为此,地方政府职能转变的研究需要从规范性的职能界定转向政府行为过程的实证研究,实现地方政府研究方式从宏观到中观、从孤立到整合、从现象到逻辑、从静态到动态的转型。

Study of Local Government: from Definition of Function to Analysis of Behavioral Process

Just like the practice of Chinese administrative restructuring,what administrative circle studies about local governments has changed from organizational reform to functional change since 1990s.However,the study is more concerned with standardized functional definition and functional analysis while the exterior system restraints,inner drive mechanism and the change,behavioral option in the implementation of functions and change of roles has not been studied.Therefore,the study should change from standardized functional definition to the positive study of government behavioral process so as to accomplish the transition of local government study from macro to medium,isolation to integration,phenomenon to logic and statistic to dynamic.