技术赋能与科层规制——技术治理中的政治逻辑

doi:10.16088/j.issn.1001-6597.2020.02.007

摘要/Abstract

摘要： 技术治理,特指信息技术在治理中的应用。既往研究在泛化技术治理概念的同时,忽略了“技术与科层的互动关系”。案例研究发现,科层制自上而下地引入技术治理,推动了传统的科层组织标准化、电子化,形成有别于传统组织的特性,确实提升了科层组织的能力。同时,科层制内的技术治理更多地取决于政治逻辑而非单纯的技术逻辑,它既是科层改革的组成部分,又不可避免地受科层制的规定和制约,简而言之,技术赋能科层,科层规制技术,技术治理与科层制的关系具有“双向性”。科层体制内的技术治理是否具有系统性,往往取决于上级意志而非执行者本身,要判断技术治理是否具有整体性,就要引入“上级决策者与具体执行者”的完整链条。技术治理若受“短期行政程序改善”的预期驱动,则容易止于“内卷化”的科层同构。

关键词: 技术治理, 政治逻辑, 科层制

Abstract: Technology governance refers in particular to the application of information technology in governance. Previous studies, while generalizing its concept, ignored the interaction between technology and bureaucracy. The introduction of technology governance from top to bottom, the case study finds, promoted the standardization and electronization of traditional bureaucratic organizations, formed its features, thus improving the capabilities of bureaucratic organizations. At the same time, technology governance in bureaucracy is more dependent on political logic than pure technology logic. It is an integral part of bureaucracy reform, while it is inevitably regulated and restricted by bureaucracy. In short, technology empowers bureaucracy, bureaucracy regulates technology, and the two bears a “two-way” relationship. Whether the technology governance within the hierarchical system is systematic or not often depends on the will of the superior rather than the executor himself. To judge whether the technology governance is holistic or not, it is necessary to introduce a complete chain of “superior decision makers and specific executors”. If technology governance is driven by the expectation of “short-term administrative procedure improvement”, it is easy to stop at the bureaucratic isomorphism of “involution”.

Key words: technology governance, political logic, bureaucracy

中图分类号:

D630

吴晓林. 技术赋能与科层规制——技术治理中的政治逻辑[J]. 广西师范大学学报（哲学社会科学版）, 2020, 56(2): 73-81.

WU Xiao-ling. Technology Empowerment and Bureaucratic Regulation: Political Logic in Technology Governance[J]. Journal of Guangxi Teachers Education University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition), 2020, 56(2): 73-81.

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