数字形式主义是一种新的形式主义吗?——基于“结构—功能”的分析框架

Is Digital Formalism a New Formalism?:Analysis Based on the“Structure-Function”Framework

治理数字形式主义已成为政府数字化转型过程中的一个重要议题,然而大多研究仅延续了执政党对于形式主义的批评脉络,将深层次的原因简单罗列为技术性、体制性、前现代性和作风性等问题,聚焦于问题与现象的静态素描,遮蔽了数字形式主义发生的复杂和动态情境,难以揭示其实践逻辑。数字形式主义是一种新的形式主义,它与政治层面上执政党将形式主义作为党员干部坚持党的理想、信仰与路线之对立面的情形具有质性区别。数字形式主义属于公共行政领域,是一个受规范性制约的有效性问题,也即政府数字化转型过程中数字行政形式何以有效;回答数字行政形式何以发挥其效能,需要理解数字行政形式与有效行政的行政生态关系。

Governance digital formalism has become an important issue in the process of government digital transformation.However,most studies only continue the ruling party's criticism of formalism,simply listing the deep-rooted causes as technical,institutional,pre-modernity and style problems,focusing on static sketches of problems and phenomena,and obscuring the complex and dynamic situation in which digital formalism occurred,and it is difficult to reveal its practical logic.This research takes administrative ecology as the basis for further conceptualization of digital formalism and exploration of causal mechanism and refines the"structure-function"analytical framework,thus revealing the generation and internal mechanism of digital formalism in the process of government digital transformation.The research points out that digital formalism is a new formalism,which is qualitatively different from the political situation in which the ruling party regards formalism as the opposite of the party's ideals,beliefs,and lines.Digital formalism belongs to the field of public administration and is a question of validity subject to normative constraints,that is,how can digital administrative forms be effective in the process of government digital transformation?To answer the question of how digital administrative form can exert its effectiveness,it is necessary to understand the administrative ecological relationship between digital administrative form and effective administration.