Abstract: In today’s society, there have been various mass disturbances emerging in an endless stream, due to local governments’ policy implementation deviation that is injurious to the public interest. Such disturbances have imposed severe damages on social stability and governmental reputation. The further the local government deviates its original intention and goal for policy making, the severer the consequence it brings to the public. For this purpose, this paper discusses the way that local governments’ policy implementation deviation influences on public’s responsibility judgment on local governments. This paper conducts a questionnaire survey on 728 citizens from 4 counties including Xingzi County and Anfu County in Jiangxi Province. This paper adopts 5 questionnaires, including questionnaire on local governments’ policy implementation deviation degree, questionnaire on public’s attribution for self-control of local governments and questionnaire on public’s judgment on local governments’ intention, as well as Mplus software for data collection. The results have shown that: (1) public’s judgment on local governments’ intention and public’s attribution for self-control of local governments intermediated the relationship between policy implementation deviation degree and public’s responsibility judgment on local governments; (2) policy implementation deviation degree also has an effect on the public’s moral responsibility judgment on local governments through the intermediary chain of public’s judgment on local governments’ intention→public’s attribution for self-control of local governments. After comparing the effect size between the mediating effect of public's judgment on local governments’ intention for policy implementation deviation degree and public's responsibility judgment on local governments, as well as the mediating effect of public's attribution for self-control of local governments policy implementation deviation degree and public's responsibility judgment on local governments, it is found that the mediating effect of the former is larger. The policy implementation deviation degree can not only has an effect on public's responsibility judgment on local governments through the mediating effect of the public's judgment on local governments' intention, but also affect public's responsibility judgment on local governments through the mediating chain formed by public's judgment on local governments' intention and public's attribution for self-control of local governments. It is clear that in case there is policy implementation deviation for governments, the effect of public's judgment on local governments' intention on public's responsibility judgment on local governments is larger than that of public's attribution for self-control of local governments. The results of this study play an enlightenment role for local governments to deal with the crises triggered by policy implementation deviation. When faced with such crisis, local governments can not only guide the public to make uncontrollable attribution for policy implementation deviation. Moreover, they’d spare no efforts to release good intentions of the local governments to the public, enabling them to believe that the deviation in policy implementation is unintentional. The public should be guided to believe that the local governments are “well-meaning but misguided” rather than intentional. This is aimed at relieving public’s responsibility judgment on local governments and subsequent moral outrage and aggressive behavior on this basis.

Key words: policy implementation deviation degree, public’s responsibility judgment on local governments, mechanism

摘要： 为探讨地方政府政策执行偏差严重程度对公众地方政府责任判断的影响机制。采用问卷法对728名社会公众进行调查，结果显示：（1）公众地方政府有意性判断和公众地方政府可控归因中介了政策执行偏差严重程度与公众地方政府责任判断之间的关系。（2）政策执行偏差严重程度还通过公众地方政府有意性判断→公众地方政府可控归因的中介链作用于公众地方政府道德责任判断。并对研究的实践启示进行了讨论。

关键词: 政策执行偏差严重程度, 公众地方政府责任判断, 影响机制