纵向府际互动视角下“先行先试”何以“先试先挫”?——基于G省权责清单改革的实践观察

Why does"Trial and Exploration"Turn into"Trial and Frustration"from the Perspective of Vertical Intergovernmental Interaction?——A Practical Experience Based on the Powers and Responsibilities List Reform in G Province

“先行先试”的政策创新一定会存续吗?在G省的权责清单改革实践中,“先行先试”的地方性经验被“自上而下”标准化政策替代而中断,走向“先试先挫”。基于这一现象,需要回答“基于上级政府许可且具有良好地方适应性的地方政府政策创新为何无法持续”问题。既有研究从政策环境视角与政策属性视角解释政策创新的可持续影响因素,但对地方政府纵向府际互动场景及创新适应性的存续失败情境关切较少。本研究采用案例研究法,以纵向府际互动为视角,全景式呈现G省权责清单改革创新中地方政府互动过程和政策形成路径。研究发现:地方政府政策创新难以有效持续一方面在于自下而上的政策生长力问题,体现为制度性约束与支持性要素缺失;另一方面在于自上而下的政策兼容性问题,体现为理念冲突与存量间断。由此,本研究构建了“纵向府际互动过程中的政策创新可持续性”的解释框架,为政策创新中的“先行先试”走向“先试先挫”提供理论解释;不仅为地方政府政策创新的可持续性研究拓宽了实践场景,也试图为“适应性创新的存续失败”悖论提供理论解释。

Will the policy innovation of"trial and exploration"necessarily persist?In the practical experience of the power and responsibility list reform in G Province,the local experience of"trial and exploration"is interrupted by the"top-down"standardized policies,leading to a situation of"trial and frustration".Based on this phenomenon,it is necessary to answer why local government policy innovations,which are permitted by higher authorities and have good local adaptability,cannot be sustained.Existing research explains the sustainable impact factors of policy innovation from the perspectives of policy environment and policy attributes,but pays less attention to the vertical intergovernmental interaction scenarios of local governments and the failure circumstances of innovation adaptability to persist.This study employs the case study method,adopting vertical intergovernmental interaction as the perspective,to comprehensively present a panoramic view of the interaction process of local governments and the policy formation path in the innovation of G Province's power and responsibility list reform.The study finds that the difficulty in effectively sustaining local government policy innova-tion lies,on the one hand,in the problem of"top-down"policy growth,which is subject to institutional con-straints and the lack of supportive elements;on the other hand,it lies in the problem of"top-down"policy compatibility,manifested as conflicts in concepts and interruptions in stock.Thus,this study constructs an explanatory framework for the"sustainability of policy innovation in the process of vertical intergovernmental interaction",providing a theoretical explanation for the transition from"trial and exploration"to"first and frustration"in policy innovation.The study not only broadens the practical context for the study of the sustainability of local government policy innovation but also attempts to provide a theoretical explanation for the paradox of"failure to persist in adaptive innovation".