地方政府避责行为的类型划分、生成逻辑与治理策略

Typology, Generation Logic and Governance Strategies of Local Government’s Responsibility Avoidance

地方政府避责行为与责任政府建设目标相悖,是影响国家治理现代化的重要障碍。立足于中国特色政治系统的运行情景,从“纵横竞合”和“制度激励”两个维度,可将地方政府避责行为划分为投机型避责、避害型避责、趋利型避责及无为型避责四种类型。复杂的制度体系是地方避责行为产生的环境逻辑,失衡的权责关系是避责行为存在的组织逻辑,风险的多重应对是避责行为发生的行动逻辑,三重逻辑在互动中彼此建构,形塑了地方政府的避责行为。从“环境—组织—行动者”的角度来看,破除地方政府避责行为的基本路径,在于进一步规避制度风险、调适结构矛盾、建设干部队伍。

Local governments’responsibility avoidance are contrary to the goal of building a responsible government,which is an important obstacle to the modernization of national governance.Based on the operation of the political system with Chinese characteristics,the study classifies local governments’responsibility avoidance into four types,namely,speculative responsibility avoidance,avoiding-harm responsibility avoidance,seeking-benefits responsibility avoidance and inactive responsibility avoidance,in terms of the dimensions of“horizontal and vertical competition”and“institutional incentives”.The study found that the complex institutional system is the environmental logic of local responsibility avoidance,the imbalance of power and responsibility relationship is the organizational logic of responsibility avoidance,multiple responses to risk is the action logic of reponsibility avoidance.To solve the current local government’s dilemma of responsibility avoidance,it is necessary to avoid systemic risks,adjust structural contradictions and build up the cadres.