社会抗争与政治参与的交融——理解中国公民行动的一个新视角

The Mixing of Social Contention and Political Participation-A New Perspective to Understanding Civil Action

公民行动两种主要研究路径具有局限性,应正确认识当下中国公民行动具有社会抗争和政治参与相互交融的特征。"抗争—参与"是理解中国公民行动的新的解释框架。这一新框架统摄抗争性参与和参与式抗争这两种具体的公民行动模式。两个典型案例展示了"抗争—参与"行动的因果机制和运作机制,由此主张促使社会抗争与政治参与进一步交融,促进公民有序政治参与,全面提升公民行动水平。

This paper first briefly reviews the limitation of two major approaches to civil action research,then asserts that we should try to understand the feature that is demonstrated by the blending of social contention and political participation among civil actions in present China. The paper puts forward a new framework of interpretation which may be called'contention-participation'. This new framework of interpretation includes two models: contentious participation and participant contention. It demonstrates the causal mechanism and operation mechanism of'contention-participation'actions by analyzing two typical cases. On the basis of that,we suggest that we should improve the level of civil action by making further mixing of social contention and political participation.