冲突还是协调:协商民主与政治代表机制间关系分析

Conflicting or Reconciling: An Analysis of the Relationship between Deliberative Democracy and Political Representation

协商民主是现代民主理论中规范性较强的一种，它对现代民主政治的指导意义巨大。政治代表机制容易造成公民群体的分隔，使得一部分人被排除在协商民主过程这外，这看上去确乎会与协商民主的规范要求相冲突。但如果我们将民主协商看作一个开放、包容的过程的话，代表机制的特殊性及其权威色彩反而会起到十分关键的正面作用。这二者之间的关系比很多现有的研究所预设的要复杂得多。然而唯其复杂，这一对关系才生发出民主理论发展的良好契机。

Deliberative democracy in a strand in today＇s democratic theories that emphasizes normative and critical values, which is very powerful in contemporary politics. But we know very little about its relationship with political representation. On the one hand, political representation could be in conflict with normative demands of deliberative democracy, such as equality, reason, and participation. But on the other hand, if we consider democratic deliberation as an open, inclusive process, political representation is indispensable. The relation between the two is far more complicated, and more important, than scholar usually presume.