困境与挑战:农村政治学的研究方法演化与范式转换

Dilemma and Challenge: Methodology Evolution and Paradigm Transformation of Rural Political Study

农村政治学是研究农村政治关系、权力、制度及其发展规律的政治学的分支学科。本文勾勒了农村政治学产生的过程,梳理了农村政治学研究方法和研究范式的演化轨迹,认为当前农村政治学已经广泛采用结构主义、制度主义、符号话语分析等不同视角,并应用历史分析、过程-事件、问卷调查、实地调查等研究方法,获得了农村治理研究的丰硕成果。同时,本文也指出,无论是在知识层面,理论层面还是方法层面,农村政治学都存在的困境与局限性。因而,本文提出若干研究范式的转向,以期进一步推动农村政治学的学科发展。

Rural politics, a branch of political science focuses its study on rural political relationship, power, institutions and their developing rules. With describing the emergence process of rural politics, presenting its researching methodology evolution and paradigm transformation, it summed up that rural political studies gained a lot on rural governance by adopting different patterns such as historic analysis, process-event analysis, questionnaire and field work and exploring from several perspectives like structuralism, institutional ism and semiotic discourse Analysis. In addition, Dilemmas and challenges the rural political researchers have met with actually existed not only on the theoretic level, but also on the methodical and informative way. Therefore, it came up with several transforming possibilities of studying paradigms to promote the development of rural political science.