政府偏好与制度起源:以1950年代后的收容遣送政策为例

Governmental Preference and the Origins of Institutions:A Case Study of the System of Internment and Repatriation in 1950s

尽管学术文献里没有给出政府偏好的恰当定义,但它的确是解释中国制度变迁中的一个重要变量。运用制度学派的有关制度变迁理论,对收容遣送制度起源的历史作出政治学的解释,可以认为,巩固政权以及与此相联系的城市化与工业化的双重压力,都对政府治理城市秩序的偏好产生了重大影响。1950年代以后的收容遣送政策及其实践,为考察政府偏好与制度设计之间的关联提供了生动的素材。

Governmental preference is indeed a fundamental variable to explain Chinese institutional change in spite that it has not been given an exact definition by the academic literatures.Using the theory of institutional change,this article will make some attempts to explain the history of the origins of internment and repatriation from the perspective of political science.The article argues that the consideration of regime and the double pressures from urbanization and industrialization have both exerted an important influence on the governmental preference about the city order.The system of internment and repatriation in 1950s thus would be an appropriate and vivid case in the inspection of the relationship between governmental preference and institutional design.