里格斯行政生态学理论的方法论意蕴探究

Exploration of Methodology Relating to Riggs's Ecology of Public Administration

行政生态学是运用生态学理论和方法研究公共行政与行政环境之间相互关系的一门交叉学科。里格斯借用生态学的理论和方法,但又不仅仅是停留在作为自然科学的生态学上,或是在逻辑上进行机械的类比,而是上升为一种哲学方法论。因此,生态学理论与方法向行政学的渗透,更为重要的是方法论层面上的意义,而非其他。

Ecology of public administration is an interdiscipline that researches the relationship between public administration and administrative environment via ecological theories and methods. Using theories and methods relating to ecology, Riggs not only compares these two subjects from the angle of ecology but parallels them from the aspect of philosophical methodology. Hence, the most important thing for studying ecology of public administration is only to take methodology into consideration.