从选举政治到广场政治:埃及穆巴拉克时代的民众政治参与

From Electoral Politics to Square Politics:The Public Political Involvement in Mubarak Era

穆巴拉克时代,常态化的议会选举提供了民众政治参与的合法渠道,民众力量的崛起形成了民主化进程中涌动的暗流和选举政治的社会基础。然而,选举政治的官方操纵性与民众参与性两者之间具有内在的悖论倾向,导致威权体制的延续与民主化的政治诉求陷于无法克服的矛盾境地。"缺乏民主的选举"势必演变为"抛弃选举的民主",从官方操纵的选举政治演变为自下而上的广场政治注定成为导致埃及政治深刻变革的历史路径。

Over the era of Mubarak, normalized parliamentary elections have provided a legitimate channel for public involvement. The rise of popular forces has formed surging undercurrents in the process of democratization and shaped the social foundation of electoral politics. Nonetheless, being caught in a paradox in which the manipulated electoral politics contradicts the public participation, Egypt thus confronts an unbridgeable gap between the sustaining of the authoritarian regime and the political demand for democratization. ＂ Election without democracy＂ is therefore doomed to develop into ＂democracy without election＂ . Inevitably, the transformation from manipulated electoral politics to bottom -up square politics constitutes the historical path leading to profound political changes experienced by Egypt.