公共行政的数字阴影:数字政府建设中的伦理冲突

The Digital Shadow of Public Administration: Ethical Conflicts in Building A Digital Government

信息技术的发展突飞猛进,推动了数字政府的建设。然而,由于数字政府建设的应然性基础存在多重对立的认知,技术的进步反而带来了数字治理手段和其行政目的之间的冲突,并直接影响政府和公众对数字政府建设活动进行有效问责。论文运用组织阴影的行政伦理框架,根据不同的手段-目的冲突类型,将各种伦理冲突归为四类:工具理性论、专家治国论、无人决策制、理论终结论。该分类为数字政府建设实践中产生的问责困难提供了伦理方面的分析视角,并为总结纷繁复杂的伦理冲突现象提供了有行政伦理理论依据的分析框架。

The rapid advancement of information technology has promoted the construction of digital government. However,due to the multiple opposing views underlying the ought-to-be logics of digital government construction,these advances have brought about conflicts between the means of digital governance and its administrative ends, which has directly affected the accountability of digital government construction activities. Using the administration ethics framework of organizational shadows,this paper classifies various ethical conflicts into four categories according to different types of meansends conflicts: instrumental rationalism,expert governance,unmanned decision-making system,and theoretical finality. This categorization provides an ethical perspective for analyzing the accountability difficulties arising in the practices of E-governance. It also offers a framework for the analyzing diverse ethical conflict phenomena based on the theories of administration ethics.