意大利部长办公室作用分析:行政改革研究中的遗留和时间性问题

Analysing the role of ministerial cabinets in Italy:legacy and temporality in the study of administrative reforms

本文探讨了作为意大利行政部门根深蒂固的顾问机构,即部长办公室自20世纪90年代初政党制度瓦解和公共管理改革的定期引入以来所发生的转变。本文研究了部长顾问在政府协调中所拥有的更大作用。这种作用弥补了由于新政党制度的制度化失误所遗留下来的治理能力的缺失。在此过程中,本实证分析确认,在意大利体制的现有机构中,重新成立的部长办公室的大批耀眼明星都是过去的遗老。按照国际标准来看,这最终会阻碍治理结构的创新。对实践工作者的启示本文试图为丰富有关部长顾问培养方面的文献做贡献,以作为日益增长的公务员政治化的一个重要证明,通过对遗留问题进行更加详尽的解释,并把重点放在改革过程中与制度安排和人员筛选相关的因果机制的识别上,本文也可能会对关于公共管理中的时间作用的一般性辩论做出贡献。为了能够描绘出行政变化的相互关系,本文也建议集中关注公务员改革中的不同政策。

The article explores the transformations which have occurred in ministerial cabinets as entrenched advisory structures in the Italian executive since the early 1990 s when the party system collapsed and a permanent cycle of public management reforms was introduced.It examines how ministerial advisers have acquired a greater role in executive coordination filling the void of governing capacity left by the failed institutionalization of the new party system.In doing so,the empirical analysis identifies the constellation of actors that reproduced ministerial cabinets as a legacy of the past in the present set-up of the Italian system,eventually hindering the innovation of governance structures according to international standards.Points for practitioners This article seeks to contribute to the literature on the development of ministerial staff as a key manifestation of increasing public service politicization.With its more nuanced type of legacy explanation,focused on the identification of causal mechanisms that link institutional arrangements and actor choices in reform processes,the article can also contribute to general debates on the role of time in public management It also recommends an integrated focus on the different policies of civil service reform in order to map interrelations of administrative changes.