公共政策的非公共化:寻租的影响

公共政策作为一种正式的制度安排 ,在解决社会公共问题时应遵循公共利益最大化原则 ,这是公共政策“公共性”的本质属性。但寻租现象的存在往往导致公共政策的非公共化 ,利益集团和一些自利的公职人员以公共利益为代价谋求其特殊利益 ,从而导致公共政策偏离公共利益最大化原则。本文主要运用公共选择理论探讨制度非均衡状态下寻租与公共政策之间的共生关系 ,指出“租”本质上内含于公共政策制定和实施之中 ,寻租破坏了公共政策的公共性 ,又将导致新的制度非均衡。

The Diminishing Publicness of Public Policy:the Effect of Rent-seeking

The "publicness"is the primary principle of public policy,as formal institutions,when dealing with the social problems.Unfortunately,rent-seeking always causes the diminishing publicness of public policy.The interest groups and the government seek their special interests at the cost of public interest.In this article,based on the theory of public choice,it is argued that while the institutions are unequilibrium,public policy always engenders rent-seeking.The article delineates that the "rent"is endogenous in the process of formulating and implementing public policy.Rent-seeking will destroy the publicness and bring about new unequilibrium of institution.