决策权集中与行政科层化:数字时代的政府组织变革

Centralization of Decision-making Power and Administrative Bureaucracy:Government Organization Reform in the Digital Ara

数字政府建设进程的加快凸显了数字技术在重塑政府治理形态中的关键作用。数字化转型对政府组织中不同成员的决策权产生了差别化的影响。其中,街头官僚和在数字应用开发能力较弱机构工作的党政干部更有可能感受到数字技术运用带来的被支配感。在数字政府中,政府组织的算法决策和刚性执行之间的分离,正是数字时代理性组织的最新表现。总的来说,数字政府建设正在推动政府内部决策与执行的分离、管理者与被管理者的分离,形成了以决策权集中、行政科层化为主要特征的政府组织结构变革趋势。这意味着数字政府建设可能会推动技术治理、科技治国等思想的重新复苏,而研究者则需要更加细致地考察技术治理的限度及其未预期后果。数字政府建设中政府组织的决策权集中化和行政科层化趋势,对理解数字时代的政府治理有着重要的启示意义。

The acceleration of the construction of digital government highlights the key role of digital technology in reshaping the form of government governance.Digital transformation has a differentiated impact on the decision-making power of different members of government organizations.Among them,street-level bureaucrats and officials working in institutions with weak digital application development capabilities are more likely to feel the sense of domination brought by the use of digital technology.In digital government,the separation between algorithmic decision-making and rigid implementation of government organizations is the latest manifestation of rational organizations in the digital era.In general,the construction of digital government is pushing the separation of decision-making and implementation within the government and that of managers and the managed,forming a trend of government organizational structure reform characterized by centralized decision-making power and administrative bureaucracy.This means that the construction of digital government may stir the revival of ideas such as technology governance and technology-based governance,while scholars need to examine the limits of technology governance and its unintended consequences in more detail.The trend of centralization of decision-making power and administrative bureaucracy in the construction of digital government has important implications for understanding government governance in the digital era.