中国地方政府竞争理论研究的缘起、现状与展望

Study on Competition Between Chinese Local Governments: Review and Prospect

地方政府竞争的概念在中国于20世纪90年代提出,进入21世纪以来相关理论研究不断升温。在经济全球化的国际背景和大国体制转轨的国内背景下,为实现地方政府在合作中竞争和在竞争中合作的目的,学术界对地方政府竞争的研究从四个视角展开:财政联邦主义视角、公共选择理论视角、新制度主义视角、治理理论视角。从今后中国经济社会发展的要求审视,地方政府竞争研究应深化其中的财政分权、官员考核系统、组织体系和跨界治理模式等方面的研究。

The concept about the competition between Chinese local governments originated in 1990s about attracted the attention of theoretic studies increasingly nowadays.In the background of economic globalization and China＇s institutional restructuring,the study on the competition between local governments goes on to view the issue from the four aspects as follows in academic with the intention of causing local governments to be competitors as well as cooperators,i.e.,financial federalism,public choice,new institutionalism and governance theory.Furthermore,in view of the foreseeable economical/social development in China,the study on the competition between local governments is required to explore the solutions to the problems in depth,such as the fiscal decentralization,examination system of officials,organization reform and transregional governance model.