废除官僚制:后现代公共行政理论述评

Termination of Bureaucracy: The Review of Post-modern Public Administration Theory

论文介绍了法默尔《杀死国王——后传统治理与官僚制》一书的理论贡献,并批判性评价后现代公共行政理论的主要观点。法默尔《公共行政的语言——官僚制、现代性与后现代性》标志着后现代公共行政语言理论的形成;《杀死国王——后传统治理与官僚制》建构了后现代治理理论总体性框架,其中"想象的游戏"的认识论、"寻求的正义"的方法论和"艺术的实践"的实践论,从理论层面为我国重塑公共行政理论提供了深刻的启迪。

This paper reviews the main theoretical contribution in To Kill the King: Post-traditional Governance and Bureaucracy by David John Farmer,and some critical comments are offered on the Post-modern Public Administration Theory. The Language of Public Administration: Bureaucracy,Modernity and Post-modernism is the landmark of establishing the Language of Public Administration Theory. To Kill the King has constructed the general framework of the Post-modern Governance Theory in public administration. Especially,the epistemology of 'thinking as play',the methodology of 'justice as seeking'and the praxis of'practice as art'give us a profound theoretical implication for reinventing public administration theory in China.