欧洲公务员技术官僚心态探析

Exploration of the technocratic mentality among European civil servants

公务员持有技术官僚心态的程度各不相同。本文探讨官僚与政治和政治家的接触是否与技术官僚心态的去政治化维度有关。基于19个欧洲国家高级官员的调查数据,本文探讨了与高级官员认知有关的因素,即在重要议题和行动中排除政治领域的影响会使政策更具有远见性。我们发现,受调查者与政治和政治家的接触程度确实与技术官僚心态负相关。那些政治学或公共管理专业的、与政客工作更密切(就组织类型而言)、互动更频繁且对互动持更积极看法的官员,往往持有较低水平的技术官僚心态。

Civil servants vary in the degree to which they hold technocratic attitudes.We explore whether bureaucrats'exposure to politics and politicians is associated with the depoliticization dimension of the technocratic mentality.We use survey data of high-level executives in 19 European countries to explore fectors that are associated with executives'perceptions that removing issues and activities from the realms of politics leads to more farsighted policies.We find that respondents'level of exposure to politics and politicians is indeed negatively associated with technocratic mentality.Bureaucrats have studied political science or public administration,work closer to politicians(in terms of type of organization),interact with them more frequently,and have more positive perceptions of these interactions tend to have lower levels of technocratic attitudes.