Abstract:The relationship between service-oriented government and developmental government has been in a bewildering entanglement for a long time. The existing literatures have discussed their relationship sporadically and dispersedly. They put forward that the developmental government is the opposite mode of the service-oriented government, suggesting to surpass developmental government and transform into the service-oriented government. However, the view of antagonistic surpassing finds the wrong “target” for criticism, neglects the inheritance and absorption of theoretical evolution, hinders the vertical accumulation of public management knowledge, and is difficult to respond to the complex problems in public management practice. To delve into the relation between service-oriented government and developmental government, perfect and enrich the connotation of theories, we use the method of bibliometrics to make a visual analysis of the literatures both at home and abroad about the two theories in the recent 20 years, summarize, refine and criticize the core viewpoints of the antagonistic surpassing, and put forward that the relationship between the two is a spiral co-advancing one. By analyzing the knowledge mapping of the service-oriented government and the developmental government, we find that the tension between the two theories in the view of antagonistic surpassing is mainly manifested as follows: (1) Public service vs. economic development. The main cluster of developmental government knowledge graph proves that domestic researches emphasize “government prioritizes economic development”, while the main cluster of service-oriented government knowledge graph proves that domestic researches emphasize public services and public products. (2) Public participation vs. government dominance. Domestic studies generally remain in the early developmental government that emphasizes the leading role of government, which is in conflict with the concept of service-oriented government that emphasizes the absorption of public opinion and the participation of citizens. (3) Public interest vs. self-interested government. The theory of developmental government version 1.0 largely contains assumption that local governments are self-interested. According to the view of antagonistic surpassing, this conflicts with the core values of the service-oriented government such as commonality, equality, cooperation, responsibility, dedication and being favorable to the people. Obviously, the view of antagonistic surpassing narrows the theoretical connotation and incompletely understands the theoretical development stage.By combing and excavating the evolution process of service-oriented government and developmental government, we argue that the two are spiraling co-advancing based on two reasons. First of all, they show synchronic characteristics in the theoretical evolution, which provides a specific space-time field for the study of their relationship. Secondly, against the background of China’s market economic system reform and administrative system reform, the two theories draw on each other. On the one hand, the developmental government absorbs and draws on the excellent results of the global governance theory in the revision; on the other hand, the service-oriented government absorbs the essence of developmental government in the continuous debugging and revision. In fact, the service-oriented government should serve the development, while the developmental government cannot do without service. The two types of governments form two long chains of governance, which jointly promote the modernization of China’s national governance system and governance capacity. Compared with the view of antagonistic surpassing, the view of spiral co-advancing, on the one hand, improves the theoretical connotation, enhances the theoretical ductility and applicability, and on the other hand provides valuable ideas for government to resolve the tension between development and service.
吴金群, 刘花花. 超越抑或共进:服务型政府与发展型政府的关系反思[J]. 浙江大学学报(人文社会科学版), 2021, 51(5): 170-182.
Wu Jinqun, Liu Huahua. Surpassing or Co-advancing: Reflections on the Relationship Between Service-oriented Government and Developmental Government. JOURNAL OF ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY, 2021, 51(5): 170-182.