公共性:中国公共行政学的建构基础

The Public Sphere:The Foundation for the Study of Public Administration in China

公共行政学的合法性危机由来已久。从历史看,通过对西方公共行政学建构的五种路径分析发现,其合法性危机的根源在于公共性的缺失。从理论看,应从公共行政的权力、主体、客体、方法和价值等维度来界定公共行政的公共性。从实践看,中国的公共权力框架的独特性、传统政治文化对我国公共行政公共性的影响和中国所处发展阶段对公共行政公共性的规定,构成了中国公共行政学建构中公共性的独特性。中国公共行政学科建构应以公共性为合法性基础实施再造,以历史逻辑、理论逻辑和实践逻辑为根据,坚持公共性的价值引领,以公共性框定研究对象,建构中国公共行政学的"公共性"话语体系,最终形成"公共性"导向的研究范式,夯实公共行政学科建构的合法性基础。

The crisis of legitimacy of public administration studies has a long history.Historically,our analysis of five approaches to the construction of public administration studies in the West has found that this crisis is rooted in the lack of a public orientation.Theoretically,the public dimension of public administration should be defined in terms of power,agents,recipients,methodology and values.In terms of practice,the unique nature of the public sphere in the construction of Chinese public administration is constituted by China’s unique public power framework,the influence of traditional political culture,and the terms laid down for the public nature of public administration by the particular stage of development China has reached.The discipline needs to be reconstructed with the public dimension as the basis of its legitimacy,with historical,theoretical and practical logic as its grounds,with adherence to the public sphere as its value guide,and with a framework of research subjects of a public nature,in order to construct a discourse system with a public character for Chinese public administration studies.This will ultimately develop into a research paradigm oriented towards the public dimension and will lay a firm foundation of legitimacy for the construction of public administration as a discipline.