公共事物治理:中国国情下的制度与科层结构——评《中国水权评价》

Governance of the Commons:Institutional and Hierarchical Structures under China’s National Conditions——A Comment on Assessing Water Rights in China

水资源治理问题是典型的公共事物治理问题。《中国水权评价》一书将中国国情纳入治水结构和水权结构的分析之中,提出了中国水资源治理的科层结构理论,系统地考察了中国的水权结构及其历史演进。该书不仅为中国的公共事物治理问题研究做出了理论贡献,也提供了实证依据。在理论上,该书构造了'水治理结构选择模型'和'水权科层概念模型',也探讨了独具中国特色的水权科层结构中引入市场的动力机制问题。在实证研究方面,该书以黄河流域的水权结构为分析对象,分析了古代中国和中华人民共和国成立以来的水权结构变迁规律,也对当代中国水权市场的6个典型案例进行了比较分析。

Governance of water resourcesis typical in governance of the commons. The book Assessing Water Rights in China brings China’s national conditions into an analysis of water-control governance and the water-rights structure. It advances the theory of the hierarchical structure in water-resource governance in China and systematically examines the historical evolution of the water-rights structure in China. The book not only contributes to study of governance of commons in China but it also provides empirical evidence. In theory, the book constructs " a choice model for the structure of water governance" and a "conceptual model for a water-rights hierarchy," and it also discusses a dynamic mechanism for introducing the market into a water-rights hierarchical structure with Chinese characteristics. For the empirical study, the book examines the water-rights structure in the Yellow River Basin as its object of analysis, analyzes changes in the law on the water-rights structure in ancient China and since the founding of New China, and also analyzes six typical cases in the Chinese water-rights market.