On the Internal Logic and Implications of the Development of Government Regulation Theory in the West

Abstract

Abstract: The government regulation theory in the west has undergone a development process of regulation-releasing regulation-coexistence of regulation and releasing regulation again.Within this dynamic framework,the government regulation theory has experienced four thematic changes,namely,"disfunction of the market and redressing measurement by the government,verification of the effect of regulation policies,seeking the political reasons of regulation policies,and incentives to regulation".In line with this process,the theory has undergone four changes:from the theory of regulation by public interests,to the theory of regulation by interest groups,then the incentive regulation theory,followed by the theory on competition within the frame of regulation.

Key words: government regulation, development in theory, logic, implications

摘要： 迄今,西方国家的政府规制实践其经济经历了规制——放松规制——再规制与放松规制并存的演进过程,而社会性规制则呈现了持续加强的态势。在这一动态框架下,政府规制理论在“市场失灵与政府的矫正措施、检验规制政策的效果、寻求规制政策的政治原因、规制中的激励问题”四次主题转换的基础上,经历了公共利益规制理论、利益集团规制理论、激励性规制理论、规制框架下的竞争理论四大理论的变迁。

关键词: 政府规制, 理论变迁, 逻辑, 启示

CLC Number:

ZHANG Hong-feng. On the Internal Logic and Implications of the Development of Government Regulation Theory in the West[J]. Teaching and Research, 2006, (5): 70-77.

张红凤. 西方政府规制理论变迁的内在逻辑及其启示[J]. 《教学与研究》, 2006, (5): 70-77.

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