A Critique of the New Public Management and the Neo-Weberian State: Advancing a Critical Theory of Administrative Reform

The New Public Management (NPM) has often been favorably contrasted with European Public Administration (EPA). This paper attempts to balance this Anglo-American perspective with a relatively new European critique of NPM which its authors call the Neo-Weberian State (NWS). Despite their differences in some key respects, however, it is argued that the NPM and NWS are similar in their sweeping paradigmatic character, their ambiguities and internal inconsistencies, their inability to go beyond instrumental rationality and incorporate forms of hermeneutic and critical reason, and in their advocacy of bureaucracy via participation under certain historical conditions, hence consistent with Weber’s characterization of modern organization and management. The paper, based on the authors’ rendering of critical social theory, provides a fresh means for bridging the two perspectives.

毛泽东反腐倡廉思想研究

毛泽东反庸倡廉思想的历史文化渊源是中华民族传统廉政文化,理论基础是马克思列宁主义反庸倡廉思想。毛泽东反庸倡廉思想的主要内容和基本精神包括：开展反庸倡廉思想教育,增强全党预防和遏制腐败的能力;开展整风整党运动,纯洁党的组织和严惩贪污腐败分子;发扬民主和强化监督,依靠人民群众开展反腐败斗争;厉行艰苦奋斗、勤俭节约,反对贪污、浪费和官僚主义;建立法规制度,从根本上铲除贪污腐败滋生蔓延的土壤;率先垂范,发挥领导干邵的带头表率作用。毛泽东反庸倡廉思想的当代启示是,反庸倡廉建设必须常抓不解,必须坚持党要管党、从严治党,必须构建中国特色反庸倡廉体系。     

Perceptions of Civil Servants Toward Privatization and Development: A New Exploratory Study

This study examines the perceptions of civil servants towards privatization with respect to national development. Using case studies and official interview data, it also examines the efficacy and effectiveness of privatization programs in a developing country, Bangladesh. The study rejects the conventional beliefs about the role of bureaucracies as anti-privatization by revealing that civil servants of Bangladesh have positive perceptions towards privatization with respect to national development. The study, however, finds no significant differences in the perceptions of different levels of civil servants towards privatization with respect to national development; they all share a common goal. Research demonstrates that civil servants generally believe that privatization positively affects economic, social, political and administrative development, although it negatively affects equity, fairness and social justice issues by widening the gap between the rich and the poor. Additionally, the study demonstrates that privatization is not conducive to employee empowerment.

中国官僚制度化的逻辑分析——兼论国家公务员制度建设的问题与改革方向

本文试图通过对韦伯官僚制理论主要内容的介绍,结合中国现实状况,理论结合实践,从逻辑上分析为什么当前中国属于官僚制度化不足而非过渡,提出中国现阶段最紧迫的任务是结合自身国情,进一步健全国家公务员制度,试图通过分析国家公务员制度建设中存在的问题,继而探寻未来改革发展方向.     

完善我国行政检举体制的理论思考

在政治架构中，行政检举作为监督制度的重要组成部分，对于抑制公共权力组织和上级官员的腐败、将公共权力纳入到法治框架内的作用是非常显著的。但是现实情况检举面临很大的困境。检举的本质是公利与私利之间的冲突，而要走出困境，完善我国的行政检举体制，对我国古代政治体制带来的启示与不同学派提出的政策建议进行有益的理论思考则是必要的。     

Deux définitions de la collégialité et leur articulation: le cas d’un diocèse catholique

Against the background of the conflict observed between managers and professionals, two definitions of collegiality are identified: on the one hand, as a specific organizational form (bottom up) and, on the other, as a procedure of bureaucratic management (top down). A study of networks of priests in a catholic diocese in France is used to explore how these two definitions are related. Questions are raised about the effects of a too narrow organizational rationalization that uses collegiality only as a top down, bureaucratic managerial procedure. This always entails the risk of making the work done by experts sterile because it overlooks the first type of collegiality, which is based on the nature of the nonroutine tasks that members perform jointly thanks to an endogenous organizational structure of a bottom up type.     

Border Scans: Sovereignty,Surveillance and the Customs Service in Ghana

This article explores the relationship between surveillance techniques and the production of sovereign statehood in an effort to track the day-to-day practices through which state authority is constituted in the context of globalization. This article explicitly probes the processes through which new forms of sovereignty come into being within the life of the state. It takes as its point of departure the operations of Ghana's Customs Service, a body charged with policing the nation's frontiers and collecting the bulk of state revenue. Contrasting the work of a multinational firm contracted by the government of Ghana to carry out Customs duties and the conventional roles of Ghanaian Customs officers, this article examines the ways in which the manifold technologies of neo-liberalism (from contractual forms and modes of accountability, to the apparatuses of surveillance) redefine the capacities, authority, and imagination of both state and self, held by state agents. Here we see a sovereignty that is increasingly derived outside of the state even as the play of sovereign power is intensified and deeply diffused within it.     

后工业化进程中的组织变革

在后工业化的进程中,人类赖以管理自我的组织形式将出现一场根本性的变革。20世纪后期以来的社会治理现实表明,人类时常地陷入危机状态之中,这是由于传统的组织形式不能满足后工业化条件下社会治理要求而导致的危机,它的直接现实要求就是,需要用一种新型的合作制组织去替代在工业社会表现的最为成功的官僚制组织。     

北宋中书检正官考论

中书检正官一职仅见于宋代,在北宋神宗朝变法期间活跃于政治舞台。其设立初衷是任用士人为宰相僚属,以朝官兼任。中书检正官之职由于初创,其事务和权限范围模糊,所涉广泛,在变法中起到了极其重要的作用。中书检正官人员选用权控制在宰相手中,中书检正官权力的行使是相权的延伸,符合变革期间权力集中,制度灵活的需要。     

(矢廾)季鼎、扬簋与西周法制、官制研究中的相关问题

西周青铜器铭文是研究西周历史的最为重要的史料之一,但须以准确的分期与释读为前提。西周中期的(矢廾)季鼎、扬簋等金文资料中的“司寇”并非官称,有周一代始终有司法官吏“司寇”之设或与之类似的观点不能成立。周代“司寇”的设立时代甚晚,至多只能推导到西周末叶,且其职位不高,以缉捕寇盗、维护社会治安为主要职事。在西周官制复原研究中,应该分清职官与职事,且不能与《周礼》等文献强行比附。