选举动员的框架整合 银杏居委会换届选举个案研究

Frame Alignment in the Election Mobilization:A Case Study of the Officer Election for Yinxing Residential Committee

社会运动和集体行动研究的"文化和建构主义转向"凸显了框架整合作为微观动员机制的重要性。但是现有文献很少把这一过程置于自上而下的集体行动领域中来考察,同时框架分析在中观层面上的动力机制的认识上尚待深化。本文通过上海市社区居委会选举的个案考察,探索了选举动员中的框架形成和整合过程。研究发现,选举委员会及其所联系的积极分子网络,形成了一个包容性的动员结构。这一特定的动员结构在各个动员环节中,策略性地把国家的政策话语和居民对选举的不同感受衔接起来,整合了民主权利、邻里怀旧和社区认同等阐释框架,由此激发了更大尺度的共鸣和参与。这表明,框架整合与动员的社会结构密不可分,框架化过程实际上建立在特定的社会关系网络的基础之上。

Studies on the ＂shifts in culture and constructivism＂ in social movements and collective actions have highlighted frame alignment as an important mechanism for bottom-up mobilization, but few have devoted to examining this process in topdown massive actions. In addition, there is a need to further understand the driving mechanism of frame analysis at middle levels. This paper uses a case study of an election of officers for a Shanghai residential committee to explore the frame formation and alignment in the election mobilization. It demonstrates that the election committee and its affiliated activists＇ network shaped an inclusive mobilization structure that strategically synthesized the policy language from the state and the residents＇ varying attitudes toward the election, and also aligned the expressive frames of democratic rights, neighborhood nostalgia, and community identity at every phase in the mobilization, which consequentially led to greater consensus and participation. This finding indicates that frame alignment and social structure are inseparable and that frame aligning is grounded in specific social networks.