公共选择理论下的官僚制——兼评《官僚制内幕》

About Bureaucracy,the Things You Do Not Know:Comments on Anthony Downs’s Inside Bureaucracy

官僚制是一种重要的统治和管理社会的方式。安东尼·唐斯的专著《官僚制内幕》使用经济学方法剖析了官员行为的目的和动机,解释了官员的内在行为逻辑,对官僚组织和官僚行为等进行全面分析,向读者揭开了鲜为人知的官僚制内幕。作者使用简洁的语言和丰富的案例向我们揭露了美国'纸牌屋'式的政治内幕,对于学者和公务员了解官僚组织和官员行为机制、预测官僚制行为很有帮助。

Bureaucracy is an important way to rule and manage society.Inside Bureaucracy by Anthony Downs uses economics methods to analyze the purposes and motivation of officials.It explains the logic of official behavior and comprehensively analyzes bureaucratic organization and bureaucratic behavior.Downs’s volume allows us to further understand little-known bureaucratic systems.Using concise language and based on numerous cases,the author describes the political system in America,which will be helpful for academics and civil servants to better understand bureaucratic organizations and the mechanisms behind official behavior,and ultimately to predict future bureaucratic systems.