治理理论与中国政治改革的思想建构

The Theory of Governance and the Intellectual Construction of Political Reform in China

20世纪末治理理论的引进标志着中国本土政治研究的重要进展。本文的目的是解读治理理论在当代中国政治研究领域中出现与变迁的历史,梳理治理理论在本土化过程中的主要脉络,厘清这一理论被整合进入政治学科话语体系的具体方式。为此,文章结合20世纪80年代以来政治改革的理论争论背景,以几位具有代表性的治理理论学者为主,深入探讨他们的研究议题及其对学界选介国外治理思想的影响,从而揭示出治理理论在融入本土政治学者思考过程中的处境化特征,以及对建构中国政治改革思想模式的深远意义。

The introduction of governance theory in the late 20th century marked the crucial development of Chinese political studies. This paper offers an intellectual history of the rise and evolution of governance theory in Chinese political science, focusing on the main trends in the process of contextualization and the ways it integrated into the scholarly discourse in the field. The paper first traced the theoretical debate around political reform since the 1980s, and then examines the works of a few dominant governance scholars as well as their influence in selecting and introducing governance ideas to the academy. By doing this, it aims to explore the key features of the contextualizing process of governance theory into domestic political thinking and evaluate its potential significance for the intellectual construction of political reform in China.