Can Quasi‐market and Multi‐level Governance Co‐exist? Insights from the Case of Lombardy's Employment Services System

This article explores the functioning of Lombardy's networked employment services system, inspired by quasi‐market and horizontal subsidiarity principles, and specifically addresses a gap in the quasi‐market literature, where little attention is devoted to the role played by institutions at lower levels of government. A qualitative study of the Lombardy system, with a focus on the municipality of Milan, is relied upon in order to explore the extent to which the principles of quasi‐market and multi‐level governance pursued by the regional government are allowed to co‐exist in practice. Here, sub‐regional levels of government are directly involved in services provision, but enjoy a more privileged condition relative to the private providers, thereby jeopardizing the implementation of an effective quasi‐market. The article contributes to existing theories by suggesting that horizontal subsidiarity and marketization cannot neglect multi‐level governance in those sectors where public bodies at various levels of government are directly involved in implementation.     

Governing Deviance in Public Space through Mayoral Orders: Fields Mismatch and Metropolitan Turbulence

This article addresses the issue of policy change and its consequences on the organizational field and institutional context, looking at the role of an instrument transfer process. We adopt a political sociology approach to policy instruments to account for the impact that the introduction of a securitarian instrument, the mayoral order, had on the implementation process of a social policy. Through a genealogy of the instrument we identify a constitutive, normative and cognitive dimension. Our aim is to explain the interaction between these institutional dimensions, the re‐definition of the organizational field of the policy, and the dynamics of metropolitan politics. Following a synthesis of the policy process and the institutional arrangements where the policy is implemented, we show how the instrument transfer triggered a division within the organizational field, and the rise of institutional tensions amongst local authorities. In the conclusion, we identify the institutional dimensions of the instruments and the policy implementation scale as elements that are to interact with public‐private relationships and institutional arrangements, and that have an impact on implementation process and policy outcome.     

政府问责视野中的国家精品课程复核研究

运用新公共服务理论和行政优益权理论分析,国家精品课程建设实质上是教育部为向公众提供优质的高等教育服务、确保优质资源的开放共享,而与申请国家精品课程的高校签订的行政契约,政府作为公共利益的集中代表,有权对国家精品课程建设给予监督并实施复核。     

洛克的政府解体论及其当代意义

“政府解体论”是洛克政府理论的重要内容,其理论基础是“论征服”、“论篡夺”、“论暴政”,分别对应政府的外部解体和内部解体。因而,这一理论在逻辑和内容上是一致的、连贯的。政府解体理论既是洛克政府理论的逻辑归宿,又是现代政府理论研究的起点,特别是对现代政府改革提供理论支撑。所以,研究洛克政府解体理论具有当代意义。     

转型期市场秩序中政府与经营者的博弈分析

当前中国处于转型期,转型初期市场秩序混乱是因为政府与经营者之间的博弈是一种非完全博弈,政府在博弈中居强势地位。随着转型的深入,这种非完全博弈正在也必须向完全博弈转化。政府与经营者之间的博弈趋势应从三个路径突破,才有利于市场秩序的稳定和完善。     

新公共服务视角下的服务型政府建设

20世纪80年代以来,新公共服务理论应运而生。基于对新公共服务理论视角中服务型政府的内涵的分析,指出“新公共服务”理论成果对我国服务型政府建设的主要启示。     

我国传统文化心理对培育理想行政人格的影响——基于传统权威思维方式的视角

传统文化心理作为形成并长期存在于我国社会文化生活中的意识形态,对人们的思维习惯、思维方式有着潜移默化的影响,而其中崇尚权威作为我国传统思维方式的特征之一,是影响培育理想行政人格的重要因素,强化了官本位意识,与培育行政人员的服务精神塑造合理的行政人格形成了冲突,官本位、敬官畏官心理皆由此产生,民众缺乏民主监督意识,从而对行政人员服务精神的确立缺乏有效的监督,进而形成求同的思维方式,要消除崇尚权威的思维方式所造成的消极影响就必须从理念上、制度上和思想上人手,坚持为人民服务的执政理念,加强伦理制度化建设,加大对行政人员的监督和约束,开放思想,创新思维。     

论公共伦理视野下的诚信政府建设

构建诚信政府是体现“人民主权”宪政原则,适应时代发展的必然要求。加强公共伦理建设,是推进依法行政与以德行政的有机结合,是不断提高政府科学行政、民主行政、依法行政能力的重要举措,是构建诚信政府的重要途径,对于构建诚信政府十分必要和重要。分析西方政府诚信制度的建立与完善,对我国从公共伦理视野下构建诚信政府提出了几点意见。     

陈廷敬的廉政思想与清廉作风

清代康熙年间的文渊阁大学士陈廷敬在反贪倡廉、肃清吏治方面提出了重要的观点和措施,他的廉政思想和主张对于康熙帝整肃吏治和康熙朝的大政方针都发挥了显著的作用。陈廷敬在其一生的宦途中,尽管以清廉著称,但是仍经历了一次重大的挫折,那就是发生在康熙年间震动朝野的张沂贪黩案。陈廷敬因为和张沂是亲戚而受到了牵连,但很快就被洗雪。在长期的政治生涯中,陈廷敬始终奉行清正廉洁的做官准则,他的清廉作风被世人所公认,因此取得了康熙皇帝的赞赏和信任,成为康熙帝最倚重的大臣。     

Conditional variance estimation in heteroscedastic regression models

First, we propose a new method for estimating the conditional variance in heteroscedasticity regression models. For heavy tailed innovations, this method is in general more efficient than either of the local linear and local likelihood estimators. Secondly, we apply a variance reduction technique to improve the inference for the conditional variance. The proposed methods are investigated through their asymptotic distributions and numerical performances.