Through a Glass Darkly: Investigating the St Petersburg Administration
Through a Glass Darkly: Investigating the St Petersburg Administration
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透过黑暗的玻璃：调查圣彼得堡政府
DOI：
10.1111/1468-2427.00092
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发表时间：
1997
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
R. Mellor
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作者：
R. Mellor
俄罗斯圣彼得堡城市管理的关键是危机助长的管理主义文化。新旧管理方法之间有很强的连续性。在整个西方世界，关于城市管理的描述都强调了民主赤字，因为地方政治领袖与地方利益代表结成了工作联盟。传统上，新的政治制度是在地方政权的对比。一贯的做法是社团主义，只有市政府更换了合作伙伴。在国家福利制度下，政治家、工会或其他利益集团和专业官员组成了紧密的阴谋集团，而在全球商业制度下，政治家、城市机构、自我提名的伟大和优秀的专业咨询机构组成了松散的网络。如果曼彻斯特的决策越来越多地集中在理事会领导人和寻求他合作的曼彻斯特黑手党身上，那么圣彼得堡决策的威权主义就不应该感到惊讶了。曼彻斯特的问题与圣彼得堡的问题相比相形见绌。在那里，管理层的利益必须占主导地位，哪怕只是为了避免城市日常生活的崩溃。然后，市场化对这些行政决策的反应的不可预测性增加了更大的管理特权的论点。
The key to the conduct of city of Saint Petersburg, Russia is the culture of managerialism furthered by crisis. There is strong continuity between the old new methods of administration. Throughout the western world, accounts of city administration emphasize the democratic deficit as local political bosses move into working alliances with representatives of local interests. Conventionally the new entrepreneurialism is contrasted in local political regimes. The consistent strand is corporatism, only the city administrations have switched partners. Whereas in a state-welfare regime there were tight cabals of politicians, trade-union or other interest groups and professional officers, in the global-business regime the looser networks of politicians, city institutions, the self-nominated great and good and professional consultancies constitute the new elites. If decision-making in Manchester, a city whose problems are dwarfed by those of Saint Petersburg, increasingly centres on the leader of the Council and the Manchester Mafia who seek his cooperation, then the authoritarianism of policy-making in Saint Petersburg should not surprise. There, the managerial interest has to dominate if only to avert breakdown in the daily life of the city. Then, the unpredictability of marketized responses to these executive decisions adds to the argument for greater managerial prerogatives.