串行适配器?地方政府首长与时空导航

Neil J Barnett, A. Giovannini, Steven Griggs
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本文通过对英国各地地方政府主要官员的一系列深入访谈,分析了 "处理 "社会空间关系的日常实践。文章认为,对首席官员而言,"空间思维 "是在领导力的实践中并通过领导力的移动来实现的,因为他们要驾驭构成地方政府景观的多重空间和时间性。这种移动中的领导力在一定程度上与公共治理研究中对边界跨越的主流解释产生了共鸣。但重要的是,我们的证据表明,边界跨越存在时间缺陷,对时间的 "薄 "解释未能解决边界的构成功能以及随之而来的流动性和固定性的复杂政治。在阐述一种 "厚重 "的时间方法时,我们认为,首席官员在经历日常社会空间关系时,与其说他们是边界的跨越者,不如说他们是连续的适应者,他们在从一个领域到另一个领域的过程中,不断复制沉淀的边界,并执行不同的治理模式。我们的结论是,序列适应挑战了边界跨越的潜在管理主义偏见,在这种偏见中,对协调和统一的追求掩盖了首席官员所处的不可还原的碎片化和政治冲突的复杂现实。
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Serial adapters? Local government chief officers and the navigation of space and time
This article analyses the everyday practices of ‘doing’ socio-spatial relations, drawing upon a series of in-depth interviews with local authority chief officers from across the UK. It argues that for chief officers ‘thinking spatially’ is played out in and through the practice of leadership on the move as they navigate the multiple spaces and temporalities that constitute the landscape of local government. Such leadership on the move resonates in part with predominant explanations of boundary spanning in studies of public governance. But importantly, boundary spanning suffers, our evidence suggests, from a temporal deficit, a ‘thin’ account of time which fails to address the constitutive function of boundaries and the complex politics of fluidity and fixity that follow. Articulating a ‘thicker’ approach to time, we argue that chief officers experience everyday socio-spatial relations less as boundary spanners and more as serial adaptors, who persistently reproduce sedimented boundaries and perform different modes of governance as they move from one arena to another. Serial adaptation, we conclude, challenges the potential managerialist bias of boundary spanning, in which the quest for harmonisation and unity masks over the irreducible complex reality of fragmentation and political conflict within which chief officers move.
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