社会治理的话语与地方实践:基于“模糊政策”的概念解释

The Discourse of Social Governance and Its Local Practice:An Interpretation Based on the Concept of“Fuzzy Policy”

政策弹性是学界长期关注的议题,但以往多从政策执行的角度理解。本研究尝试将决策与执行作为政策连续过程展开分析,讨论政策所具有的模糊属性对地方政府政策执行多样性的影响。以社会治理创新的政策过程为例,研究揭示了不同地方政府对社会治理创新有三种差异极大的实践方式,其根源在于政策话语本身的模糊空间。模糊政策具有特定的治理功能,让地方能够因地制宜调整政策方向,提升组织间合作程度,并提供治理创新空间。借助历史比较,研究也尝试分析社会治理创新作为模糊政策的演进方式及其问题。

Policy elasticity,though it has been a long-standing concern in academia,was once mostly interpreted from the perspective of policy implementation.This study attempts to analyze decision-making and implementation as a continuous process of policies,and discusses the impact of the fuzzy attributes of policies on the diversity of local government policy implementation.Taking the policy process of innovations in social governance as an example,this study reveals that there are three significant differences in the practical approaches of local governments towards innovations in social governance,and that such approaches are rooted in the vague space of policy discourse itself.Fuzzy policies bear specific governance functions as such policies allow local governments to adjust policy directions according to local conditions,enhance cooperation between organizations,and provide space for governance innovation.Through a historical comparison,the study also attempts to analyze the evolution and problems of innovations in social governance innovation as fuzzy policies.