The Study On Goodnow's Politics And Administration Dichotomy Thought

Politics and administration dichotomy is a cornerstone of administration, and a permanent topic accompanied by administration growth. Politics and administration dichotomy and the system of bureaucrat are the foundation of traditional public administration. Accompanying with the spring up of the school of New Public Administration, the school of New Public Management and the school of New Public Service in recent years, they criticiz politics and administration dichotomy in different perspectives,but they can not broken it's historical frame. Therefore it's particularly important for us to understand the Politics and administration dichotomy better, to carry out Goodnow's politics and administration dichotomy systematizely.This thesis based on the perspective of ecological administration, expound Goodnow's politics and administration dichotomy thinking systematically and in detail with the method of combining theory and practice, and conducted a deep thinking on the significance to administration and practical reform by politics and administration dichotomy. The scholars in the past have misunderstandings on Politics and administration dichotomy on a certain degree, they opposed Politics and administration dichotomy because of a wrong cognition that politics and administration are isolated completely, they did not point out the relation of politics and administration correctly, nor the approach of coordinating politics and administration. Rereading Goodnow's work"politics and administration", I discover that the core of his thought is separability and harmony between politics and administration, the sepration of them are the basic of their coordination. This thesis mainly set forth the outstanding contributions of Goodnow's politics and administration dichotomy, which including the necessity of politics and administration cooperation, and realization path of the both cooperation, specifically speaking there are three aspects, that is appropriate control of the political administration, the appropriate administration centralization, and the out-law regulation- the role of political parties. And these are the thesis's priority, difficult point and the point of being innovative.Discussion on politics and administration dichotomy possesses a certain academic and practical significance, which can provides guidance to understand and analyze Goodnow's politics and administration dichotomy correctly, and a theoretical guidance to a further study on the public administration, and a guiding significance to the government management of our country.