比利时法语区公务员政策咨询类型

Policy advisory styles in the francophone Belgian civil service

在部长级顾问日益重要的背景下,本文就公务员参与政策工作的性质提供了实证依据。一项针对比利时法语区在职公务员的调查报告显示,即使在强有力的部长级内阁所领导的政治行政体系中,公务员也会大量参与政策工作。比利时法语区公务员属于"次要顾问",与重点负责政策实施的事务专家相比,他们算不上流程通才,其作为政策咨询人员的角色类型不时在"理性的技术人员"和"客户顾问"之间切换。尽管在公务员制度中,政策咨询(policy advisory)的制度化程度较低,但是公务员在政策制定(协调)阶段为部长做了大量工作,包括信息补充、分析、参与相关政策内容的编写工作等。

In a context of the rising importance of ministerial advisers,this article provides empirical evidence about the nature of involvement of civil servants in policy work.Based on a survey of graduated civil servants in francophone Belgium,it shows that civil servants are much involved in policy work even in a politico-administrative system characterised by strong ministerial cabinets.Belgian francophone civil servants are’incidental advisors’.They are less process generalists than issue specialists who mostly deal with policy implementation.Their policy advisory style oscillates between’rational technician’and’client advisor’.Despite a low institutionalisation of policy advice in the civil service,civil servants significantly serve the ministers in the policy formulation(for harmonization)phase,supplying information and analysis and participating to the writing of policy-related texts.