政府合同治理的风险及其防范

作为一种融入了更多市场精神的治理工具,政府在当今公共服务供给中广泛运用合同制。由于存在信任非对称、信息不完全、机会主义和合同内在不完备等因素,以及合同的市场化逻辑与政府的公共属性之间存在的必然冲突,政府合同治理会产生一系列委托—代理风险问题。从委托—代理理论和制度创新角度,可以通过构建选择性的激励机制和复合型的监控机制来防范政府合同治理所面临的各种风险。

Risk of Governmental Contract Governance and Its Precautions

At present in the provision of public service,government has extensively exercised contract system as a kind of governance tool that blends much more market elements.Governmental contract governance might trigger some risks of principal-agent because there exist nonsymmetrical trust,uncompleted information,opportunism,imperfection inside contract as well as the inevitable conflicts between the logic of contract marketization and the governmental public attribute,etc.From the angle of principal-agent theory and institutional innovation,the precautions against manifold risks amidst governmental contract governance may be taken through the agency of alternative drive mechanism and compound supervisory mechanism.