奔向新世界:英语圈公共行政领域中一些难以忽视的真相 国际行政科学学会2014年布芮班特讲座

Towards a new world: some inconvenient truths for Anglosphere public administration

在全球舞台上,'公共管理'作为英语圈主导的话题在过去30多年里成熟起来了。如今,我们有理由相信这一时代正在成为过去。理由主要有三个:第一,英语圈理念与实践的主导地位,从未像它有时所表现出来的那样实至名归过;第二,英语圈典型公共管理改革的成效一直都存在问题,最新的学术研究表明,这些改革中只有一小部分取得了实质性成功;第三,世界其他地区在政治和经济上正变得更加有影响力和自信,而且,在某些情况下,它们还有着自己悠久的行政传统。但是,我们并不因此而沮丧,这种开放状态为进行艰难的但可能富有意义的辩论提供了机会,而这种辩论必将跨越不同的文化和行政传统。

On the global stage,public management has grown up over the past 30 years as a topic domimated by the'Anglosphere'.Now there are reasons to believe that this era is ending.There are three main reasons for this.First,the dominance of An giosphere idsas and practices was never as complete as it may sometimes have appeared.Second,the effectiveness of typical Anglosphere reforms has been problematic.Recent scholarship indicates that only a modest proportion of such reforms can show evidence of suLs'-antial success.Third,other regions of the world are becoming economically and politically more influential and self-confident,and,in some cases,they also have long administrative traditions of their own.Far from being a reason for dismay,this opening-up offers an opportunity for difficult,but potentially very rewarding debates that will need to run across different cultures and administrative traditions.