Ungovernability: Is There Fire behind the Smoke?
Ungovernability: Is There Fire behind the Smoke?
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不可治理性：烟雾背后是否有火？
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1979
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R. Rose
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R. Rose
不可治理性是当下的流行语，但从分析角度来看，这个词是无稽之谈。现代西方社会不能没有政治权威，就像不能没有金钱一样。本文将所谓的治理威胁定义为完全合法的政府失去效力、失去民众同意或两者兼而有之的前景。对有效性的威胁之一是资源失衡，增长的财政红利无法跟上公共政策成本的惯性增长。另一个是政府组织的积累，通过增加协调成本而失去效率，并通过在未知手段下采取相互矛盾的目标或目的而失去效力。只有当公民对无能的政府越来越冷漠、背弃政府并依赖社会的其他主要机构来满足他们的需求时，权威才会受到严重损害。
Ungovernability is a catchword of the moment, but analytically the term is a nonsense. A modern Western society can no more do without political authority than it could do without money. This paper defines the supposed threat to governability as the prospect of a fully legitimate government losing its effectiveness, losing popular consent, or both. One threat to effectiveness is an imbalance of resources, with the fiscal dividend of growth failing to keep up with the inertia growth in the costs of public policy. Another is an accumulation of government organizations, losing efficiency by increasing costs of co-ordination and losing effectiveness by adopting contradictory objectives or ends without known means. Authority is only seriously jeopardized by citizens growing increasingly indifferent to an ineffectual government, turning their backs on government and relying upon other major institutions of society to provide for their needs.