社会再分配:强制与自愿的边界界定

Social Redistribution:Defining the Boundary between Compulsion and Free Will

社会再分配是维持社会稳定、实现社会公平的有效手段。从实施主体、运行机理角度看,现实中的社会再分配存在强制和自愿两种运行机制,两种机制在组织特征上具有互补性,成本不同,收益有别,科学界定二者的边界,实现两种机制的均衡,社会再分配才能获得最佳的社会效应。厘清两种机制的作用边界,有助于缓和中国转型过程中产生的贫富差距扩大、社会原子化倾向等社会问题,从而有效促进社会整合。

In our practice there are two running mechanisms in social redistribution： compulsion and free will, which complement each other in terms of organizing features. Clarification of their boundary can strike the balance between the two, produce the optimal social effects of social redistribution, and effectively advance social integration by mitigating social problems such as the growing gap between rich and poor as well as the tendency of social atomization.