寻找日常生活中的民主——以《参与和民主理论》为研究文本

Looking for Democracy in Daily Life——the Study of Participation and Democratic Theory

民主作为一个政治目标一直指引着人类对政治生活的探索,在当代民主理论家眼中,民主是一种制度安排,在这之下,精英争取选票获得做出决策的权力。以卡罗尔·佩特曼为代表参与民主理论则认为,当代民主理论家过度强调科学性和效率反而失去了对民主理想的追求,只有发现民主本身的地位、价值与功能,将参与从日常生活领域中推广至全国的政治领域,才能更好地实现参与理想。

Democracy as a political target has been guiding the human exploration of political life, in the eyes of contemporary democratic theorists, democracy is a system arrangement, under it, get decision-making power elite for votes.Represented by Carole Pateman participate in democratic theory is that too much emphasis on scientific and efficiency lost pursuit of democratic ideals instead, find out the status of democracy itself, the value and function, will participate in from the field of daily life to national politics,in order to better achieve ideal.