Addressing fragmented government action: coordination, coherence, and integration
Addressing fragmented government action: coordination, coherence, and integration
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DOI：
10.1007/s11077-017-9281-5
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发表时间：
2017-12-01
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5.3
通讯作者：
Michel, Cynthia L.
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作者：
Cejudo, Guillermo M.;Michel, Cynthia L.
解决复杂问题是许多政府面临的挑战。关于如何解决上述问题的学术和实践讨论将政策整合视为解决分散的政府行为对解决公共问题或提供公共服务所产生的负面影响的方法。尽管最近做出了重要贡献，但我们仍然缺乏对政策整合是什么的准确理解，缺乏对政策整合与复杂问题（例如协调或政策一致性等其他“解决方案”）有何不同的解释，以及实际的可操作性。在本文中，我们认为协调、连贯和整合是相关但本质上不同的概念。我们提供了一种理解和观察政策一体化的新方法，其方式在理论上有别于政策协调和连贯性，并且在经验上可观察。我们认为，政策整合是旨在解决复杂问题的战略和行政决策的过程。解决这一复杂问题的目标涵盖但超出了项目和机构的个人目标。实际上，这意味着在政策过程的每一个时刻，都有一个决策机构基于一种新的逻辑——解决一个复杂的问题——做出决策。
Solving complex problems is a challenge faced by many governments. Academic and practical discussions on how to solve said problems look at policy integration as a solution to the negative implications that fragmented government actions have on addressing public problems or providing public services. Notwithstanding important recent contributions, we still lack a precise understanding of what policy integration is, an explanation of how it differs from other "solutions" to complex problems, such as coordination or policy coherence, and a practical operationalization. In this paper, we argue that coordination, coherence, and integration are related but substantively different concepts. We offer a new way of understanding and observing policy integration in a manner that is theoretically distinguishable from policy coordination and coherence and empirically observable. We argue that policy integration is the process of making strategic and administrative decisions aimed at solving a complex problem. Solving this complex problem is a goal that encompasses-but exceeds-the programs' and agencies' individual goals. In practical terms, it means that, at every moment of the policy process, there is a decision-making body making decisions based on a new logic-that of addressing a complex problem.