制度如何形塑政策?——基于历史制度主义的视角

How Do Institutions Structure Policies? A Perspective of Historical Institutionalism

制度尤其政府体制究竟是如何形塑公共政策的?这一涉及公共政策与行政管理的基本问题,似乎尚未引起国内学术界充分重视。历史制度主义学派提供的分析视角,可使我们更好地理解国家内部政策的延续性和不同国家间政策的变异性,更好地吸取别国与本国在政策制订中的经验与教训。本文通过梳理和探析历史制度主义的理论与方法论特征,揭示它对公共政策研究的制度分析路径,以期对我国公共政策研究与相关制度建设获得有益的启示。

How do institutions, especially government institutions, structure public policies？ This is a fundamental issue related to public policy and administration, but it seems not to be cared about in the domestic academic sphere. Inspired with analytic perspective of Historical Institutionalism, we could better understand policy continuities within countries and policy variations across countries, and better learn about various experiences and lessons from home and abroad. This article tends to figure out the theoretical and methodological characteristics of Historical Institutionalism, explores its approaches of institutional analysis to public policy, and policy research and relevant institutional buildings. expect to gain some meaningful implications for our public