竞争与共存:信任网络视阈下政府合法性探析

On the Legitimacy of the Government In the Eye of Trust Network

信任网络是实际存在的一种社会关系,它是维持社会正常运转的纽带。政府合法性是实现有效治理的保证,其本质是民众对政府以信任为基础的遵从。政府与社会信任网络之间存在竞争。政府信义降低,用于公共利益的资本减少,而强制力的使用增加,只能导致政府的可依赖性和合法性衰微,从而其他非制度化信任网络兴起。政府嵌入社会关系,包括培育信义、积累资本、平等融入社会信任网络,是赢得民众支持和实现政府合法性最为理想的途径。

Trust network is one kind of subsistent social relationship, and a tie which maintains the social normal functions. The legitimacy of the government is the guarantee for the effective governance, which nature is a trust-based compliance. There is some kind of competition between the government and the social trust network, while constraint, capital and faith are the three elements of the government to affect people＇s attitudes and the nature of the network of social trust. The decline of the local government faith, the attenuation of the capital for public interest, and the increase in the use of the coercive power, can only lead to dependency and legitimacy decline, and the rise of other non-institutionalized trust network. Embedding in social relations, including nurturing faith, accumulating capital, and equally integration into the social trust network, is the most important way to achieve the legitimacy of the government.