公共政策管理:公共政策研究的一个新维度

Public Policy Management: A New Dimension of Public Policy Research

公共政策是需要被管理的。当前,对公共政策的研究多倾向于政策分析,将其作为一种管理工具来分析论证,但是,公共政策本身也是需要被管理的。公共政策管理研究是理论研究的拓展,也是公共政策现实运作的客观需要,这既是对理论研究的凸显,更是对实践活动的回归。公共政策管理对于提升政策绩效、化解政策冲突、降低政策成本、提升政府行政效能具有重要意义。公共政策管理的形成和产生绝非主观臆断,其内在特征是公共政策管理的前提和基础,也是进行公共政策管理行动的内在逻辑。

Public policy needs to be managed. Currently its research is mostly done in the dimension of policy analysis, i.e. it is analyzed as a management tool. Public policy, however, needs to be managed itself and the research of its management is the extension of its theory besides being a objective necessity of actual operation of public policy. More than highlighting its theoretic research, it means a return to practice. Management of public policy is of great importance to enhancing policy perfo^nance, solving policy conflicts, minimizing policy cost, and improving government effect. Its formation and emergence is not a form of subjective speculation. Instead, its inherent characteristics are the prerequisites and bases of public policy management as well as the inner logic of taking public policy management measures.