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中国地方政府公共物品供给研究:以非正式制度为视角

王芳[著]

地方政府 公共物品 供给 研究 中国

2017-12-01

978-7-5203-1633-0

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对于转型期中国地方政府行为的研究,现有文献日益重视正式制度对官员行为的激励和约束作用:以GDP为标尺的相对绩效考核制度是改革开放后中国经济成功的决定因素,同时该正式制度也是地方政府忽视公共物品供给的重要原因。即使在考虑了正式制度及社会经济因素之后,本研究仍然观察到地方政府在公共物品供给水平上存在着显著的地区和时间差异。然而,对于此差异背后的决定因素,现有文献却考察不足。本书认为,非正式制度是造成该差异的原因。通过采用地区领导人籍贯作为非正式制度的代理并利用1990年至2010年的中国地级市数据,本研究系统检验了上述假设。

For the study of local government behavior in China during the transition period, the existing literature pays more and more attention to the incentive and constraint role of the formal system on the behavior of officials: the relative performance appraisal system with GDP as the yardstick is the determinant of China's economic success after the reform and opening up, and the formal system is also an important reason why local governments neglect the supply of public goods. Even after accounting for formal institutions and socioeconomic factors, the book observes significant regional and temporal differences in the level of local government provision of public goods. However, the existing literature has underexamined the determinants behind this difference. This book argues that informal systems are responsible for this discrepancy. This book systematically tests these hypotheses by using the origins of regional leaders as agents of the informal system and using data from China's prefecture-level cities from 1990 to 2010. The book finds that officials serving in their home areas have a greater incentive to provide public services to their regions than local leaders from other places: local leaders spend significantly more on basic education, public health care, and environmental protection than leaders from outside their home countries. The book also finds that the increase in the share of public service spending has come at the expense of infrastructure: local officials contribute significantly less to this expenditure than foreign officials. At the same time, using provincial data and the same model settings, this study also finds that the informal system still plays a role in provincial administrative units, but to a lesser extent. These findings highlight that in an environment dominated by formal institutions, informal institutions still play a significant role and compensate for the former's shortcomings to some extent. Based on the empirical findings, this book further examines the mechanisms by which informal systems work through case studies and interviews. By analyzing the behavior of local leaders in two prefecture-level cities to vigorously develop livelihood projects and the perceptions of ordinary people about local and foreign officials, this book details the mechanisms by which the informal system influences the behavior of officials, thus providing evidence for the causal mechanisms revealed by the empirical analysis. The book argues that the reason for this difference is that local officials are more embedded in local networks than foreign officials, and they are more invested in livelihood projects out of respect for themselves and their family's prestige in their hometowns. This book's examination of informal institutions and the interaction between the two institutions highlights the institutional dynamics that enrich the behavior of officials within countries in transition.(AI翻译)

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