Societal issues in adopting life-cycle concepts within the political system
Societal issues in adopting life-cycle concepts within the political system
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在政治体系中采用生命周期概念的社会问题
DOI：
10.1080/15732470701322867
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发表时间：
2009
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
R. Corotis
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作者：
R. Corotis
所有政治制度的基础都是当政者保留权力；民主、代议制、皇室和专制制度也是如此。公众对为广大公众(至少是那些有影响力的人)服务的看法加强了这一目标。由于人们倾向于重视直接回报，因此，基于生命周期成本分析的最优设计选择的概念从根本上与政治制度不符。相反，用最少的成本产生最直接的利益是设计桥梁、交通和其他网络等公共基础设施时的自然倾向。认识到这一冲突并制定程序以提高寿命周期成本计算的可接受性，将使人们更多地接受和使用这一明显最佳的方法。建议了几种方法，使生命周期成本与政治回报更加一致。这些措施包括举办公共论坛，让人们了解生命周期成本的长期价值增加，对不同初始成本和维护的项目进行案例研究，并编写公共基础设施报告，向社会通报所有基础设施的资本、运营、维护和风险成本。
The basis of all political systems is retention of power for those in office; this is true for democratic, representative, royalty and autocratic systems. Public perception of service to the public at large (at least those with influence) enhances this goal. As people tend to value immediate returns, the concept of optimal design selection based on life-cycle cost analysis is, therefore, fundamentally at odds with political systems. Instead, producing the most immediate benefit for the least cost is a natural inclination when designing public infrastructure such as bridges, transportation and other networks. Recognizing this conflict and developing procedures to enhance the acceptability of life-cycle costing will result in increased acceptance and use of this clearly optimal method. Several methods are suggested that will make life-cycle costing more consistent with political rewards. These include public forums to educate people on the increased long-term value of life-cycle costing, case studies of projects with different initial costs and maintenance, and a public infrastructure report that informs a community of the capital, operating, maintenance and risk costs of all infrastructure.