政治参与:政治文明和政治现代化的时代命题

The Political Participation,Political Civilization and Political Modernization:A Proposition of the Age

政治参与、政治文明与政治现代化三者,存在着密切的逻辑关系。政治文明作为人类文明的一个进步状态和政治生活方式,希冀表达的是一种状态和目标;而政治现代化则重点显现的是一个政治的发展过程,试图完成从传统政治方式向现代的整体转换;公民的政治参与,则是实现政治现代化和政治文明的途径和方式。政治参与的意义,不仅仅在于它的工具理性,更在于它最终言明了政治文明与政治现代化的价值指向。

The political participation, political civilization and political modernization are related with each other logically. The political civilization, as a progressive status and the political way of human civilization, aims to demonstrate a status and an object; the political modernization focuses on the developing progress of the politics, and describes the integral transition of politics from the tradition to the modern; the civil political participation refers to the approach and manner to achieve the political modernization and the political civilization. The meaning of the political participation not only lies with the tool rationality but also the value orientation of the political civilization and political modernization.