交易费用政治学:现状与前景

从 2 0世纪 80年代开始 ,交易费用经济学开始被运用来研究政治领域的许多问题。虽然这一领域已经积累了大量的文献 ,但即使在英语文献里 ,仍然还没有研究者全面地对于这个领域的研究进行评估。本文先评述这个领域的主要研究成果 ,然后 ,分析为什么交易费用经济学可以用来分析政治问题 ,并总结了交易费用政治学的贡献。最后 ,分析了交易费用政治分析存在的问题以及未来的研究领域。

Transaction Cost Politics:the State and future

Since the 1980s,Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) has been applied to political issues.Transaction Cost Politics (TCP) has been appeared.TCP has greatly helped to correct weaknesses of former rational choice political models,at the core of which lies public choice theory.Despite the growth of this body of literature,no critical and complete review has been conducted on them even in English academy.Therefore,it is very useful for us to first review this body of literature in Chinese academy,which would help to enhance studies of political science and transaction cost economics in China.this paper first reviews major studies and their findings in TCP.Next,this paper addresses why TCE can be applied to politics.Finally,this paper discusses problems TCP is facing and future research areas in TCP.