转型中国的公民意见与地方财政决策——基于对地方政府的调查实验

发布时间：2018-05-20 06:24

本文选题：政府回应性 + 财政决策　；参考：《公共管理学报》2015年03期

【摘要】：回应公民意见是现代政治系统的基本功能,西方国家的研究表明,公民意见是政府决策的基本影响因素;然而,讨论转型国家中公民意见影响政府决策的研究相对缺乏。本文旨在利用调查实验分析转型中国公民意见对地方财政决策的影响。基于"意见-政策连接"理论,通过对26个地级市3059位地方官员的调查实验来检验假设,实验同时考察了经济发展和民生福利两个政策领域上级政府和本地公民意见对地方财政决策的影响。实验结果表明,在地方层面,经济发展支出决策显著地受上级政府和本地公民意见的影响,前者的影响略强于后者;民生福利支出决策不受上级政府和公民意见影响。该结论在控制了官员个体特征、政治价值观、政策偏好和地区差异后仍然成立。中国地方政府"选择性"地回应公民意见,具有经济回应性,"选择性回应"的前提是该政策领域具有高显著度、公民和决策者具有共享的政策偏好。因而,强化政府回应性应同时着力于开放政策过程与上级权威对地方官员偏好的调节。
[Abstract]:Responding to citizen's opinion is the basic function of modern political system. The research of western countries shows that citizen's opinion is the basic influencing factor of government's decision, however, the research on citizen's opinion's influence on government's decision in transition countries is relatively lacking. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the influence of Chinese citizens' opinions on local financial decisions. Based on the theory of "opinion-policy link", the hypothesis is tested through an investigation of 3059 local officials in 26 prefectural cities. At the same time, the influence of higher government and local citizens' opinions on local financial decision in the two policy fields of economic development and people's welfare was investigated. The experimental results show that, at the local level, economic development expenditure decisions are significantly influenced by the opinions of higher governments and local citizens, the former is slightly stronger than the latter, and the decisions on people's livelihood and welfare expenditure are not influenced by the opinions of higher governments and citizens. The conclusion still holds after controlling the individual characteristics, political values, policy preferences and regional differences. Local governments in China respond selectively to citizens' opinions and have economic responsiveness. The premise of "selective response" is that the policy field is highly significant and citizens and policy makers have shared policy preferences. Therefore, to strengthen the responsiveness of the government should focus on the adjustment of local officials' preferences in the process of opening up policy and the superior authority at the same time.
【作者单位】：清华大学政治学系;中国青少年研究中心;香港中文大学政治与行政学系;
【基金】：国家社会科学基金青年项目(15CZZ036) 北京市自然科学基金青年项目(9154030)
【分类号】：F812.7;D630;D621.5

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