激活公共性:社会治理共同体何以可能?——基于H市M区“参与式预算”改革的案例分析

Activating Publicness: How Is the Social Governance Community Possible? A Case Analysis of the “Participatory Budgeting” Reform in M District, H City

如何建设人人有责、人人尽责、人人享有的社会治理共同体,已成为当前摆在我国政府和社会各界面前的重要现实议题。从公共性理论视角出发,对南方N省H市M区的参与式预算改革案例进行深入的个案研究。立足于H市M区四年来的参与式预算改革成效和困境的评估基础,认为公共性是社会治理共同体得以形成的基础,更是社会治理共同体得以巩固和发展的关键要素。H市M区的改革案例中社区“弱公共性”的主要成因是:居委会的行政化运作,社区社会组织的缺乏。最后提出激活公共性的几个具体策略:发挥党建引领机制、积极培育社区社会组织、简化参与程序和引入信息技术。

How to build a community of social governance in which everyone has his duties, fulfil his responsibilities and enjoys his share has become an urgent and realistic issue for the Chinese government and all sectors of society. From the perspective of publicness theory, this paper conducts an in-depth case study of participatory budgeting reform in M District, H City, N Province in southern China. Based on the evaluation of the achievements and difficulties of participatory budgeting reform in M District, H City, over the past four years, this paper holds that publicness is the basis for the formation of a social governance community, and also the key factor for the consolidation and development of a social governance community. The main reasons for the weak publicness of community in the reform case of M District in H City lie in the administrative operation of neighborhood committees and lack of social organizations in the community. Finally, some strategies are put forward to activate the publicness, which involve exerting the leading mechanism of Party building, actively cultivating the social organizations of the community, simplifying the participation procedures and introducing information technology.