代理人再生产:基层社会治理的新实践及其逻辑

Agent Reproduction:New Practice and Logic of Grassroots Social Governance

在社会治理转型期,国家力量的向下渗透与社会力量的向上生长,会带来哪些新的治理经验?这些新实践是如何发生的?通过对典型个案的研究,本文认为基层政府在制度创新的压力与惯习之下,为加强国家权威的合法性,缓解治理主体的多元化要求与基层政府能力不足之间的矛盾,采取了代理人再生产的行动策略。这样一种基层社会治理新模式的产生,是国家在追求发展与威权体制约束下,在协调政府主导与社会自治间关系时进行的一种折衷选择,通过创新性地构建第三方合作平台,基层社会治理资源得以有效聚集,基层民众对国家权威的合法性认同也得以加强。它既展现了基层政府在社会治理中的权威意志及导向性功能,也呈现出社会力量在向上生长的过程中是如何被吸纳整合,成为政府渗透基层的重要抓手。而要在"强政府"的基本场域下构建形成"强社会"的发展态势,则需要进一步调试各级政府与基层社会之间的权力关系,扩大资源配给方式的改革面向,回归基层社会治理的社会属性。

In the period of social governance transformation, what new governance experiences will be brought about by the downward penetration of state power and the upward growth of social forces？ How did these new practices happen？ Through the study of typical cases, this paper holds that under the pressure and habit of institutional innovation, in order to strengthen the legitimacy of the state authority and alleviate the contradiction between the pluralistic demands of the main body of governance and the insufficient capacity of the grassroots government, the grassroots government has adopted the action strategy of agent reproduction. Such a new mode of social governance at the grassroots level is a compromise choice made by the state under the constraints of authoritarian system and pursuit of development in the coordination of the relationship between government leading and social autonomy. Through the creation of an innovative third party cooperation platform, the grassroots social governance resources have to be effectively gathered together, the Public recognition of the legitimacy of state authority has also been strengthened. It not only shows the authority will and guiding function of the grass-roots government in the social governance, but also shows how the social force is absorbed and integrated in the process of growing up, and has become an important social grab for the government to infiltrate the grass-roots level. In order to build the development trend of ＂strong society＂ in the basic field of ＂strong government＂, we need to further adjust the power relations between the governments at all levels and the grass- roots society, expand the reform of the way of resource allocation and return to the social attributes of the grass- roots social governance.