探索与争鸣 ›› 2023, Vol. 1 ›› Issue (1): 81-89.

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重大基本理论问题研究(一) | 权力还是价值 :官僚制何以持久存在

张乾友   

  • 出版日期:2023-02-28 发布日期:2023-01-20
  • 基金资助:
    教育部哲学社会科学研究后期资助项目“公共行政的社会理论研究”(21JHQ070);南京大学文科青年跨学科团队专项“国家治理与国际治理的工具体系和话语体系研究”(011714370122)

Power or Value: Why Bureaucracy Persists

Zhang Qianyou   

  • Online:2023-02-28 Published:2023-01-20

摘要:

官僚制是一种广受批评的组织现象。同时,它虽然历经无数次改革,却仍然屹立于当代社会之中。这一矛盾结果并未得到合理解释。主流观点通常将官僚制视为权力,并出于对权力的厌恶而反对官僚制。但事实上,官僚制起源于价值,更准确地说,起源于所有人使自己的价值得到承认的内在动力。要让所有人的价值都得到承认,就得有什么属于有价值之事的标准;这一标准要有约束力,就必须成为规则;这种规则要得到执行,就必须有权力。由此,信奉平等的人们就从对彼此价值的同等承认出发建构出了官僚权力。就此而言,只要我们不能抛弃对于价值的迷恋,官僚制就将成为一种持久性的存在。

关键词: 官僚制, 价值, 权力, 承认斗争, 官僚政治

Abstract:

Bureaucracy is a widely criticized organizational phenomenon. It has undergone countless reforms, while still stands erect in contemporary society. This contradiction has not been reasonably explained. Mainstream opinion sees bureaucracy as power, and against bureaucracy because of its detest of power. But in fact, bureaucracy originate from value, more accurately, from the inner motivation of everyone to have their values been recognized. To recognize everyone’s value, there must be a criterion for valuation; this criterion is to be binding, it must be made into rules; these rules are to be executed, there must be power. Hence, people with egalitarian belief construct bureaucratic power among themselves to recognize each other’s value equally. In this regard, as long as we don’t discard our obsession with value, we will live with bureaucracy persistently.

Key words: bureaucracy, value, power, struggle for recognition, bureaucratic politics