司法公信力初论——概念、类型与特征

Preliminary Study on Public Confidence Force of Judicature ——Concept, Type and Characteristic

司法具有公信力是依法治国的必然要求。公信力的概念本身蕴涵着信用与信任两个维度,同时还具有公共权力的属性。司法公信力是一个具有权力运行与受众心理两个维度的概念。在此基础上,司法公信力具有三种基本类型:权力威慑型、理解型、认同型。司法权的内在运行与社会公众的心理认同达到高度契合的状态是我们所追求的理想类型。在理想类型下,司法公信力具有主体交互性、开放性、制度性、资源性与合法性等特征。

It is a necessary request of ruling country according to law for judicature to have public confidence force. Public confidence force itself contains two elements, i.e. credit and faith. It also possesses the properties of public power. The concept of public confidence force has two dimensions of power operation and subjects' psychology. On this basis, public confidence force could be divided into three fundamental types:power deterring type, understanding type and identifying type. The ideal type we pursue is that in which the inherent operation of judicial power and the psychological identification of social public achieve a state of highly integrating. Under this ideal type, public confidence force has the characteristics of subjects' interaction, openness, institutionalization, resourcefulness, legitimacy and others.