公共行政的可持续性及其组织基础

Public administration sustainability and its organizational basis

得益于跨越近半个世纪的新数据集,本研究探讨了公共治理的可持续性。从理论上对可持续的公共治理如何依赖于其组织结构进行了探究,阐明了组织因素如何系统地影响决策行为,进而影响公共治理的可持续性。此外,本研究认为,由于组织结构可以适应有意为之的变革,它可能是公共治理背景选择的重要设计工具。因此,本文为公共行政的学术界和实践者之间的对话搭建了桥梁。在实证性和方法论上,本研究提供了一个样本量为13173的新的纵向数据集,该数据源自跨越1976年、1986年、1996年、2006年和2016年5个时间节点的共计9次针对部委及其代理机构的调查,并包括了历任政府官员。综上所述,该数据集表明,公共行政中的行政可持续性和可持续公共治理都取决于其组织结构。

Benefiting from a novel data set spanning nearly half a century,this study probes the sustainability of public governance.Theoretically,it examines how sustainable public governance rests on its organizational fabric.The study illuminates how organizational factors systematically influence decision-making behaviour and thus public governance sustainability.Moreover,the study argues that since organizational structure is amendable to deliberate manipulative change,it may thus be an important design instrument of the context of choice in public governance.Accordingly,the article offers an avenue to build bridges between the academic and practitioner worlds of public administration.Empirically and methodologically,the study offers:a novel large-N(13,173)and longitudinal data set that spans five observation points in 1976,1986,1996,2006 and 2016;nine surveys at ministry and agency levels;and several generations of government officials.Taken together,the data set demonstrates that both administrative sustainability in public administration and sustainable public governance rest on its organizational fabric.