当代公民社会与民主化:一种可能性的分析

Modern Civil Society and Democratization: Possibility Analysis

20世纪中叶,当代民主化浪潮在全球受阻。在民主化的反思中,越来越多的人们注意到了公民社会对民主化的推动作用。笔者试图从结构-功能、政治文化与全球化三个维度分析公民社会对民主化的推动作用是如何可能的:公民社会的内在结构有利于划定公民与国家之间的疆界,构建公民民主参与的渠道,提供一种“以社会制约权力”的机制;公民文化与民主文化和谐一致,加强公民文化建设对培育民主精神与民主文化有很大助益;从民族国家层面走向全球层面的公民社会,仍有可能成为推动世界性民主化进程的重要力量。

The wave of modern democratization was confronted with too many obstacles in the middle 20th. More and more people have focused on the function of civil society to democratization in the reflection of democratization. The author wants to show the functions of civil society to democratization from three dimensions, such as structure-function, political culture, and globalization： the instinct structure of civil society makes it convenient to depart the burden between citizens and the country, to build the channels of citizens＇ democratic participation, and to offer the mechanism of controlling power by the society, therefore it can push the process of democratization; Since the citizen culture and democratic culture are united, strengthening the construction of citizen culture is good for producing democratic spirit and culture;with the development of civil society from nation country to global, it may still be an important power to push the democratization of the world.