权力运行法治化:国家治理体系现代化的关键

Legalization of Power Operation:the Key to the Modernization of State Governance System

国家治理本质上就是运用国家权力治理国家,国家治理体系现代化的首要衡量标准也就体现为国家权力运行法治化。实现国家权力运行法治化既是法治国家思想的必然理论逻辑,也是我国国家权力运行体系现代化的迫切现实诉求。国家权力运行法治化是一项系统工程,包括权力配置的法治化、权力运行过程法治化、权力监督法治化和权力支持体系法治化,它不仅取决于权力结构本身的制度机制建设,也取决于社会的法治意识和政治文化变革。因此,要从德法并重的价值取向、制度化的依法执政体系、规范化的权力制约机制、立体化的权力监督机制等方面入手来推进国家权力运行法治化。

The essence of state governance is to govern the country with state power, and the primary measure of the modernization of state governance system is embodied in the legalization of state power operation. The legalization of state power operation is not only the inevitable logic of thought of rule of law ,but also an urgent and realistic demand for the systematic modernization of state power operation. As a systems engineering,the legalization of the state power operation includes the legalization of power configuration,of the process of power operation,of power supervision,and of power support. It not only depends on the institutional mechanism, but also on the legal awareness and political and cultural reforms of the society. Therefore, the value orientation giving equal attention to morality and law, institutional mechanism of governing by law, normalized mechanism of power restriction, and multiple-dimensioned mechanism of power supervision,are essential to promote the legalization of state power operation.