沙堪斯基关于政治对政策成败影响的研究及其启示

Reflections on Ira Sharkansky's Study on Political Effect on the Likelihood of Success or Failure of Policy

介绍了沙堪斯基关于政治对于政策成败的影响这一研究的学术缘由,阐释了沙堪斯基关于影响政策制定、政策选择与政策成败的几种政治因素和政治手段,以及政策分析的途径及局限性等观点。评价了沙堪斯基这一研究的学术意义,指出了其研究观点给予我们的启示是:提醒人们关注政治与政策分析的关系这一公共政策制定的永恒难题,揭示了导致政策过程复杂性的各种政治因素源于现代政治体系,西方政治学与新制度主义经济学具有融合的趋势。

Describes why and how Sharkansky studied the political effects on the likelihood of success or failure of policy, as well as several political factors/means that affect the formulation, choice and performance of policy, and the way to analyze a policy and its limitation. Evaluating the academic significance of Sharkansky＇s study, his viewpoints enlighten us as to the problem of public policy making which is hard to resolve for long and attracting people＇s attention, i. e., the connection between politics and policy analysis. It is revealed that all sorts of political factors which lead to the complexity of the process of policy formulation/implementation originate from the modern political system and the western politics that tends to integrate with the new institutional economics.