规范性价值与经验性程序的统一——哈贝马斯协商民主理论对中国法治建设的借鉴

Unity of Normative Value and Empirical Procedure:The Enlightenment of Habermas' s Deliberative Democracy on Chinese Legal Construction

民主理论中存在着"规范性-经验性"的二元分野。以自由主义民主为代表的经验性民主忽视民主的规范性价值,哈贝马斯的协商民主肯定了"人民主权"这种规范性内核;以共和主义为代表的规范性民主则缺乏经验性,因此哈贝马斯的协商民主重视协商程序以及其他经验性民主制度,实现了民主的规范性和经验性的统一。这种理论为中国的法治建设提供了借鉴,我们既要重视法治建设中人民的主体性地位,又不能忽视制度化、规范化的行政程序。

There is dualistic perspective on normative and empirical democracy. Liberalism democracy is empirical, ignoring democratic normative value; while republicanism democracy is normative, neglecting empirical procedure. Habermas＇s deliberative democracy affirmed normative value of popular sovereignty and stressed deliberative procedure and other practical democracy institution. Therefore, he unified normative and empirical democracy. This theory brings enlightenment to Chinese legal construction： we should lay stress on subject position of people and emphasize institutionalized administrative procedure.