ReConnect: Reconnecting citizens to the administrative state?

重新连接：重新连接公民与行政国家？

• 批准号: ES/XX00049/1
• 负责人: Martin Lodge
• 金额: $ 68.25万
• 依托单位: London School of Economics and Political Science
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FXX00049%2F1
• 关键词: ReConnect; Reconnecting; citizens; administrative; state

The administrative state is central to democratic governance - it connects citizens to the state.The current age of political turbulence - expressed through citizen dissatisfaction and populistpolitics - represents a fundamental challenge to the authority of institutions of theadministrative state and requires inquiry into processes of citizen dis- and reconnection withthe state.The RECONNECT study investigates how the age of ‘administrative turbulence’, a result ofchanges in the political environment, cumulative side-effects of decades of public sector reformand changing citizen demands, have led to calls for more ‘responsive’ administrative stateinstitutions. In particular, RECONNECT investigates variation in attitudes and demands bycitizens and politicians towards the administrative state and explores how the administrativestate has sought to become more responsive to citizens and politicians. RECONNECT focuses onfive distinct dimensions of the administrative state covering constitutional, regulatory, enabling,consumer-protecting and consulting dimensions. These dimensions express different, butreinforcing elements of citizenship in democratic governance. Using focus groups and pollingdata to understand citizen attitudes towards the administrative state and documentary andinterviews research regarding political and administrative actors, RECONNECT generates newknowledge to compare and explain variation across dimensions of the administrative state andEU member state jurisdictions. RECONNECT contributes to academic and practitionerknowledge and debates regarding the future of the administrative state in the current age ofturbulence. In doing so, RECONNECT points to ways how citizens can be reconnected to theadministrative state in particular and wider democratic governance more generally.

行政国家是民主治理的核心--它将公民与国家联系在一起。当前的政治动荡时代--通过公民不满和民粹主义政治表现出来--代表着对行政国家机构权威的根本挑战，需要探究公民与国家分离和重新联系的过程。REEQUECT研究调查了“行政服从”时代，由于政治环境的变化、几十年公共部门改革的累积副作用以及公民需求的变化，人们呼吁建立更具“反应性”的国家行政机构。特别是，REEQUECT调查了公民和政治家对行政国家的态度和要求的变化，并探讨了行政机构如何寻求对公民和政治家做出更积极的回应。REEQUECT侧重于行政国家的五个不同维度，包括宪法，监管，授权，消费者保护和咨询维度。这些方面表达了不同的，但加强民主治理中的公民要素。使用焦点小组和民意调查数据来了解公民对行政国家的态度，以及关于政治和行政行为者的文献和访谈研究，REEQUECT产生了新的知识来比较和解释行政国家和欧盟成员国司法管辖区之间的差异。REEQUECT有助于学术和咨询知识和辩论关于未来的行政国家在当前的动荡时代。在这样做的过程中，REMOECT指出了公民如何重新连接到行政国家和更广泛的民主治理的方法。