公务消费预算信息公开能否有效助力支出增长控制?——基于地方政府公开数据的经验研究

Can the Disclosure of Government Budget Information Effectively Help Control the Growth of Public Consumption Expenditure?An Empirical Research Based on the Data Published by Local Governments

作为“善治”的重要政策工具,以政府信息公开为基础的透明度建设,旨在减少委托人和代理人之间的信息不对称,强化责任机制,从而提升公共政策的治理效能。然而,近期部分西方学者借助经验数据,否认其社会价值。以1221个地方政府的经验数据,基于制度建构的理论视角,检验了公务消费预算信息公开的治理绩效。研究发现:公务消费信息公开制度有助于控制公务消费支出增长;公众的知情权意识和官员的晋升激励可以有效助力公务消费预算信息公开的治理绩效。为提升公务消费预算信息公开的制度绩效,必须深刻认识其制度建构特质,强化政府信息公开的数据质量意识,提升公众问责机制建设水平,将人民至上的政治理念融入到具体的执行机制之中,助力国家治理体系和治理能力现代化建设。

As an important policy tool for“good governance”,transparency construction based on government information disclosure aims to reduce information asymmetry between principals and agents,strengthen the accountability mechanism,and improve the governance effectiveness of public policies.However,some western scholars try to deny its social value through empirical data analysis recently.This research employs empirical data of 1221 local governments to inspect the governance performance of public consumption budgetary information based on the theoretical perspective of institutional construction.The research results show that the public consumption disclosure institution can help to control the growth of public consumption,and the public's awareness of the right to know and the promotion incentives of officials can effectively help with the governance performance of the public consumption budget information disclosure.In order to improve its governance performance,we should understand its constructive nature deeply,strengthen the data quality awareness of government information disclosure,enhance the public accountability mechanism construction,and enshrine the political notion of the supremacy of the people into the concrete enforcement mechanism to boost national governance system and ability modernization construction.