政府向新型智库购买决策咨询服务:何以可能与何以可为?

Government Purchasing Decision-Making Advisory Service from New-style Think Tanks:How Can It Be Possible and What Can It Do?

政府购买新型智库服务,系指政府就公共决策中面临的难题问计于新型智库,并为此支付相应费用的咨询供给模式,它既是政府决策咨询的机制创新,亦是培育与发展新型智库的可行路径。政府向各类智库购买服务大体分为定向委托模式、体制内吸模式和市场竞争模式三类,其中市场竞争购买对于激发新型智库活力、构建政策分析市场和供给高质量的决策咨询具有独特优势。而由于服务购买方与承接方之间存在的诸多制约因素,包括购买制度不健全、对部分智库的不信任以及智库承接能力有限等,导致政府购买咨询服务陷入困境,亟需从"智库—市场—政府"的逻辑维度构建政府向新型智库购买服务的推进策略:智库明晰自身的发展定位,提升研究质量和影响力;充分发挥市场机制,引入第三方评估机构;政府应供给购买服务制度,营造智库良性竞争的环境。

Government purchasing decision-making advisory service from new-style think tanks refers to the government asks for new-style think tanks on the difficulties faced in public decision-making and pays the corresponding fee for it. It is not only a mechanism innovation of government decision-making advisory but also a foster and develop new-style think tanks viable path. There are three modes of government purchasing services to various think tanks： directed delegation,systemic absorption and market competition. Market competition has unique advantages in stimulating the activity of new-style think tanks,building a policy market and providing high quality decision-making advice. However,due to many constraints between the service buyer and the undertaking party,such as the unsound purchase system,the distrust of some think tanks and the limited ability of the think tanks to undertake,the government purchasing decision-making advisory services in a dilemma. It is imperative to build the government＇s promotion strategy of purchasing services from newstyle think tanks from the logical dimension of ＂think tanks—market—government＂： think tanks shall clarify their own development orientation and enhance the quality and influence of research,give full play to market mechanisms and introduce third-party assessment agencies,and should be provided to purchase service system,to create a favorable environment for think tanks competition.