压力型体制:一个概念的简明史

A Pressure System:A Brief History of A Concept

如何描绘和分析中国地方政府过程是一个充满争议的话题,并且产生了多个富有影响的概念,其中就包括"压力型体制"。"压力型体制"是对地方政府运行的形象描述,强调地方政府的运行是对不同来源的发展压力的分解和应对。压力型体制是在中国社会经济转型过程中形成的。随着社会经济条件的变化,它对社会和政治系统的全面动员能力受到了限制,动员方式和手段有所改变,但却扩散到经济领域之外更广的领域。因此,作为一个概念,它依然有解释的力量并有进一步发展的空间。

How to describe and analyse the operation of Chinese local government is hotly debatable and many influential concepts are invented by scholars in different fields. The pressure system is one of them. It vividly describes how local governments operate mainly for responding to and coping with pressures from various resources. This system emerges in the process of social and economic transition. With the change of social and economic conditions, its ability of mobilizing has been constrained and its methods have been adjusting. Even though, it has extend to more fields in addition of economic growth. Therefore, it is still powerful for explaining as a concept and need further developed