公民社会与治理理论:两种城市社会转型解释视角的比较

Perspectives of Social Transformation in Urban China

公民社会与治理理论是学界解释中国城市社会转型的两种主流理论视角。公民社会和治理理论在西方的学术传统中各有所指,二者虽相互交叉、密切相连,但仍旧有各自清晰的学术脉络和使用语境。文章运用内容分析法对相关理论解释性文献的分析表明,国内学者在不同的语境下使用两种理论,并对两种理论进行了有别于西方传统理解的再阐释。

The concept of civil society has been widely used to interpret the social changes in urban China, al- though scholars have never reached consensus on it. While the theory of governance was introduced to China, the domestic scholars quickly embraced it with a belief that this capable theory could provide a way of liberating the tensions between the growth of social organizations and the constraints of the state in the Chinese political context. Therefore, Chinese specialists interpret the Chinese experience under these two intellectual streams. As everyone knows, civil society and governance are two different theoretical frameworks in the Western intel- lectual community. Do Chinese scholars treat them differently？ How satisfactory do they find with these two ex- plaining paradigms？ Based on the context analysis of the existing literature, this article attempts to answer these questions.