合作社提供公共服务:一个公共经济学的解释

Cooperatives Providing Public Services:An Explanation of Public Economics

面对现实中农民专业合作社提供公共服务目标"偏离"的现象,在合作社快速发展和持续争论的背后隐含着学者们对一个核心问题的追问:合作社如何坚守"服务社员"的根本原则?公共经济学有关合作社提供公共服务的性质、服务的可能性、服务的可行性和服务绩效等方面的理论成果,为构建合作社提供公共服务的分析框架和运行模式提供了理论依据。合作社提供公共服务的未来走向取决于作为服务生产者的合作社与作为服务对象的农户以及作为服务规划者的政府部门等相关主体之间的利益博弈,因此,需要采取社员自我增权、政府部门扶持和监管并重、加强合作社制度建设等措施,以强化合作社服务社员的职能。

Confronting the phenomenon of deviation of goals in the process of providing public services,cooperatives develop rapidly yet controversially, behind which a core issue on how to adhere to the principle of serving members has been put forward. The theoretical achievements in public economics on the nature, the possibility, the feasibility and the performance evaluation of the public service provided by cooperatives pave a way for the foundation of analysis framework and operation mode. The prospect of cooperatives providing public services depends on the interest game among the relevant bodies including cooperatives playing the role as services producers, farmers as service objects, and the government as the service planner. Therefore, measures should be taken to strengthen the functions of cooperatives to serve members,such as the members＇ self-empowerment, the collaborative efforts of support and supervision on the part of the government, and the system construction.