协商、文化差异与原住民自治

Deliberation,Cultural Difference,and Indigenous Self-Governance

多元社会中的文化差异导致少数民族群体在政治决策中处于明显的弱势地位,尤其在强调理解和考虑政治共同体所有成员的观点与利益的协商民主条件下;由此,政治决策的合法性将受到质疑并被严重削弱。本文通过原住民群体与主流社会的鲜明对比,展示了文化的不可通约性、理性互惠原则和民主政治决策达成等方面所凸显的困境,进而肯定了在多元文化社会中协商民主的治理价值。此外,本文还审慎地提出赋予原住民群体以自治权,将其视为一种避免造成少数民族群体的政治弱势和维护政治共同体的合法性的有效途径。

Cultural differences in Pluralistic societies lead to significantly political disadvantages of minority groups in political decisions, especially with emphasis on understanding and taking into account the perspectives and interests of all members of the political community under deliberative democracy, so its political legitimacy will be questioned and seriously undermined. This essay demonstrates outstanding dilemmas on the cultural incommensurability, the principle of rational reciprocity and reaching democratic political decisions with a distinctive comparison between indigenous groups and the majority society, and then affirms governance value of deliberative democracy in multicultural societies. Moreover, this essay judiciously put forward to granting indigenous groups powers of self-governance, which is regarded as a kind of the effective ways to avoid political disadvantages of minority groups and maintain legitimacy of a political community.