School News Network (contributed by the School of Government Management)Professor Zhang Yi and his collaborators' latest research result, "Constructing China's Independent Public Policy Assessment Knowledge System: Necessity, Basic Framework and Main Ways", was published in the Academic Monthly in April 2024.

Main Views

Public w88 login has a very long history in China. Its early application can be traced back to the assessment of the official achievements and merits of in-service officials since the Han Dynasty. It is alongside the public w88 login based on social science methodology in the 20th century. It is one of the two sources of public w88 login application. The application of public w88 login as a social science in China began in the 1950s, and the academic research and exploration of public w88 login theory began around 2000.

1. Historical and discipline basis of the construction of knowledge system for public policy assessment

The public w88 login knowledge system is a collection of several knowledge units formed around the exclusive propositions of this discipline. Briefly speaking, public w88 login includes three core propositions: (value) criteria for judgment, methods for data collection and analysis, applications (models), and corresponding reasoning logic.

The knowledge accumulation of public policy assessment is bidirectional. General research-based knowledge focuses on rigor and emphasizes practicality, but knowledge as practical science needs to transcend the dual obstacles of mutual transformation between scientific research and established fields of practice.

The public w88 login knowledge system presents dynamic characteristics of evolution from low-level to high-level knowledge units in its development history. At the macro level, the content of the public w88 login knowledge system is an orderly collection of concepts and theories formed around three basic propositions.

2. The necessity of building China's independent public w88 login knowledge system

Public w88 login is the basis for policy formulation, implementation, revision or termination, and plays an important role in the process of building a national governance system and modernizing governance. On January 20, 2015, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council issued the "Opinions on Strengthening the Construction of New Think Tanks with Chinese Characteristics", which clearly proposed to establish and improve a w88 login system.

The introduction and start-up of the discipline of public w88 login began around 2000. The central tasks of the Party and the country put forward major theoretical and practical requirements for the scientific decision-making. Public w88 login began to attract attention as a work and a specialized research field. The history of the evolution of China's public w88 login knowledge system, the completeness of the discipline system and the development of the theoretical system are embedded in the process of national governance modernization, and important nodes in institutional reform and policy promotion have promoted the construction of the evaluation knowledge system.

As a concept or claim from a specific position, evaluation theory is a specific solution proposed for the basic problems of evaluation practice and has a high degree of scenario applicability. Applicability is consistency. The system composed of evaluation rules and behaviors is rooted in the political-social structure. The concepts, positions and propositions of the evaluation theory should be consistent with the value and culture of the system to which the decision-making link belongs, formal systems, rules and procedures, and define why and how to evaluate it.

3. The basic framework of China's independent public policy assessment knowledge system

Academic system and discipline system are both knowledge system structures presented in a classified manner. Although the formation and evolution of both systems are spontaneous, the discipline system focuses more on institutionalization and serves the institutionalization of knowledge production.

The academic system is generative and is a specific context and correlation structure presented by the gradual accumulation of propositions through theory. The position of the theory in the classification system reflects its logical position and unique contribution in the general framework.

The discipline system is an artificial division mechanism of the knowledge system, and can effectively play the organizational management function in knowledge production. The construction of China's independent public w88 login discipline system should start from China's problems, but it cannot stop at the construction of individual identifiers and theories. Instead, it is necessary to further integrate the logic and levels of multi-angle such as norms and empirical, systems and elements, theoretical frameworks and application models, general theory and empirical evaluation.

From the perspective of the disciplines that constitute the basic theory of public w88 login, the interdisciplinary disciplines mainly come from economics, statistics, politics, ethics, public administration, public policy, etc.; if we look at specific policy fields, the discipline span and scope of application of w88 login are very wide; but public w88 login has an integrated general theory and is applicable to a wide range of interdisciplinary fields. Public w88 login, as an interdisciplinary subject, has the particularity of theoretical innovation, that is, the endless complex assessment problems constantly expose discipline boundaries and implicit assumptions, and establish new theories and knowledge by transcending discipline boundaries but constantly integrating theoretically in a common direction (including paradigms, models, tools, methods, etc.).

IV. Main ways to construct China's independent public w88 login knowledge system

With the rise of China's comprehensive national strength and international social status, it has leaped from individual identity concepts and local theoretical innovations to holistic theoretical interpretations and macro-complete independent knowledge systems. This is the mission and responsibility that the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has given to the development of philosophy and social sciences in the new era and new journey.

The evolution of the knowledge system of public w88 login is not only a spontaneous and conscious scientific exploration process, but also a process of institutionalizing management knowledge creation and knowledge production. Specifically, it includes: (1) Building China's independent public w88 login knowledge system guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era; (2) Actively absorb and transform the reasonable core of China's excellent traditional culture, carrying the subjectivity of the construction of the knowledge system with the practical Chinese spirit, and transforming and integrating traditional culture and modern public policy evaluations in the same way as the system and structure.

Zhang Yi, professor at the School of Government Management, University of International Business and Economics, and director of the Chinese Society of Administrative Management. The research directions are digital governance and supervision, public service cooperative supply, public w88 login and case study methods, etc.