政策流动性的理论进路与研究展望

Theoretical approaches and research prospect on policy mobility

全球新自由主义化与自反性治理的兴起推动了政治的全球循环,政策运动呈现出新动态和新特征。理性形式主义下的政治科学研究对传统框架的依赖,以及社会学对地理流动性的忽视使得既有概念解释力度受限。政策流动性的地域指向性和空间关联性为地理学介入政策研究提供了理论突破的可能。本文在追溯政策流动性议题的跨学科滚动式对话进程时,立足于地理学文献,明晰了政策流动性的研究承诺与研究起点。作为理解新自由主义全球化背景下政策制定如何运作、政策知识与模式如何流动以及这些流动性如何塑造地方的有效概念工具,政策流动性试图阐明政策在流动过程中涉及的空间特征、地理位置、权力关系及其社会与地理形成过程,成为社会科学领域对“运动的思想”和“流动性生产”进行探析的核心领域。同时,政策流动性研究中的理论方向和研究要素又提供了各学科文献与流动的政策现象之间的接触条件。本文在一定程度上弥补了流动性研究对思想和知识的经验性运动事实的缺失以及人文地理学在权力理论方面的研究不足,为地理学参与跨学科研究提供了重要研究场域与楔入概念。

The rise of global neoliberalism and reflexive governance has driven the political flows at the global level.Policy movements thus have shown new dynamics and characteristics.Political science,within the sphere of rational formalism,whose dependence on traditional frameworks,as well as the neglect of geographic mobility in sociology,have limited the explanatory power of existing concepts.The geographical orientation and spatial correlation of policy mobility offer the possibility of a theoretical breakthrough by introducing human geography in the policy research.Based on the literature in geography,this study traces the process of resembling rolling conversation through transdisciplinary research on policy mobility,and further clarifies the conceptual connotations,commitments,and research starting points of policy mobility.As an effective conceptual tool for understanding how policymaking operates,how policy knowledge and models flow,and how these mobilities shape places in the context of neoliberal globalization,policy mobility seeks to clarify the geographic positions,power relations,spatial characteristics,and social and geographical formation processes that are involved in the movements of policies.Policy mobility thus becomes a core field in the social sciences exploring"ideas in motion"and"production of mobilities".In addition,the theoretical orientation and research elements in the study of policy mobility also enhance the explanatory powers of literature from other disciplines to this subject.To a certain extent,this study compensates for the lack of empirical analyses of ideas and knowledge in mobility studies and insufficient research on power theory in human geography.It provides an important research field for applying geography in transdisciplinary research.