赫伯特.考夫曼是美国当代著名的政治学家和行政学家,其行政分权与政治权力思想对于西方政治学及行政学的发展具有重要的意义和贡献,其不仅回答了政治与行政的联系问题,延伸了行政学研究的发展方向,同时还包含及影响了西方治理理论的一系列主张。当然,不可否认其思想也具有一定的局限性,但其思想的合理内核对我国仍具有重大的启示意义。 Herbert Kaufman is a famous political scientist and administrative scientist in the contemporary United States. His thought of administrative decentralization and political power is of great significance and contribution to the development of western politics and administration. It not only answers the questions of politics and The connection of administration extends the direction of the development of administrative studies, and at the same time it also contains a series of propositions that have influenced the theory of western governance. Of course, it is undeniable that its thinking also has its own limitations. However, the reasonable core of its thinking still has major implications for our country.