公共行政合法性:概念、结构及危机

The Legitimacy of Public Administration: Concept,Structure and Crisis

公共行政合法性一直是个重要但模糊不清的议题。从知识传统来看,早期公共行政学者着重探讨了公共行政合法性的判定标准,其后一代学者则从宪法主义、契约主义、法律主义等不同但最终形成互构的视角阐释公共行政合法性,最近的研究重归对其概念的探究。迄今为止,"公共行政合法性"的概念尚未得到准确清晰的界定。根据已有研究与公共行政自身的结构,可将公共行政合法性的结构分为组织制度合法性、实践合法性与学科合法性三部分。以公共行政合法性的结构为剖析工具,可以更加深入全面地解读官僚制行政范式下公共行政组织制度层面的规制合法性、规范合法性、认知合法性危机,公共行政实践层面的过程合法性、绩效合法性危机,以及学科层面在学科议题共识、研究方法与学术共同体认同方面存在的问题。

The legitimacy of public administration is important but controversial. Early researchers focused on the decision criteria of public administration legitimacy,the next generation explored the issue from different but mutual-constructing perspectives,and the latest study returned back to the definition of it. So far,there is no consensus about the concept of ' public administration legitimacy'. According to some related theories and the structure of public administration,the structure of public administration legitimacy can be defined as organizational and institutional legitimacy,practicing legitimacy as well as academic legitimacy. Using the structure of public administration legitimacy can be defined as organizational and institutional legitimacy,practicing legitimacy as the analytical tool,it can interpret the crisis of regulation legitimacy,standard legitimacy and cognition legitimacy in the level of organizational and institutional legitimacy,the crisis of process legitimacy and performance legitimacy in the level of practicing legitimacy as well as the problems about subject consensus,research methods and academic community identity in the level of academic legitimacy.