行政学中层研究：寻找理论与现实的中介

我国行政学研究面临着基础理论创新不足和实证研究匮乏的双重问题,同时缺乏理论与现实的中介环节.行政学研究的基本品性与内在缺失提出了一项迫切的任务:构建行政学中层理论.中层理论是联系经验研究与综合理论的纽带,一方面,它可以被经验直接证明,但又不是经验的简单概括,可以为经验研究提供强有力的理论支持;另一方面,它不满足于抽象的理论原则,可以为抽象的理论提供现实基础,从而增强综合理论的解释力.只要我们立足中国的改革实际,选择论域有限的现实问题,充分借鉴其他学科已有的研究方法,不断丰富并完善行政学的中层理论,就能不断增强理论对现实的解释能力,服务于公共行政改革的现实需要.

The Middle-level Studies of Administration: Seeking an Intermediary between Theory and Reality

Research on Chinese administration faces double problems of insufficient innovation in basic theories and deficient empirical studies. At the same time, it lacks the intermediary between theory and reality. All of there put forward an urgent task: to constuct a middle-level theory of administration. The middle-level theory is the tie between the experience research and the comprehensive theory. On one hand, it can be proved directly by experience, but not a simple generalization of experience. It can offer a powerful theoryetical support supporting for experience studies. On the other hand, it is not only on abstract theory but also provides a realistic foundation for the abstract theory. Therefore, it can strengthen the explanation of the comprehensive theory. So long as we base on the reform reality of China, choose the limited realistic problems in the field, fully draw from the existing research approach of other disciplines, constantly enrich and perfect the middle-level theory of the administration, can the explanation force of the theory to reality be strengthened to serve the realistic need of public administration reform.