政治社团参与协商民主的独特优势:中国的经验逻辑——以人民团体为例

The Unique Advantages of the Deliberative Democracy:China's Empirical Logic——Taking the People's Organizations for Example

在现代社会,组织是协商民主实践运行不可脱离的主体结构。作为现代中国社会语境下的一种组织形态,人民团体是个体化公民聚合起来进行集体行动、开展资源动员的有机力量,是建构集体认同、集聚社会资源、约束社会失范、促进社会整合的内生性生长机制,因而成为协商民主建构与建设的重要资源空间和实践“场域”。与一般社会组织相比,政治社团参与协商民主在属性、结构与功能等多方面展现出独特的优势。政治社团优势的显现及有效激发的关键在于人民团体处于国家与社会之“中间”的空间结构方位。

In a modern society,organization is the main structure of the practice of deliberative democracy.As an organizational form in the context of modern Chinese society,people's organizations are the organic force for individual citizens to gather together for collective action and resource mobilization.Because the people's organizations are the endogenous growth mechanism for building collective identity,gathering social resources,restraining social anomie and promoting social integration,they have become an important resource space and practice field for the construction of deliberative democracy.Compared with the general social organizations,the participation of Chinese political communities in deliberative democracy shows its unique advantages in many aspects,such asattribute,structure and function,etc.All in all,these unique advantageslie in the middle orientation between the country and the society.