社会主义协商民主的理论姿态

Theoretical Characteristics of Socialist Consultative Democracy

社会主义协商民主是对社会主义民主的创新与发展,是中国共产党和中国人民的伟大创造,呈现出独特的理论姿态。从政治理念来看,社会主义协商民主是社会主义民主的新范式新修辞,它呈现三维特质:以“言语对话”为协商媒介,体现了一种“以言行事”的新型言语政治行为模式;将公共协商扩散到立法和公共决策等政治领域,展现了现代治理的协商属性;在多元分化的社会群体中,援用公共协商来寻找责任、认识和利益等方面的共同性。从生成视角来察看,社会主义协商民主与社会主义选举民主结伴而生,经历着从实践探索到理论研究再到制度构建、从政治领域肇始再到国家和社会两大领域同向而行的发展路线图。从内在的精神来考察,整体主义所蕴含的集体精神、整体一致原则为社会主义协商民主生成与建构提供了价值支撑。

Socialist consultative democracy is the innovation and development of socialist democracy,showing a unique theoretical posture.Viewed from the perspective of the political concept it contains,consultative democracy is a new category and a new expression of socialist democracy,showing the following three characteristics:taking dialogue as the medium for consultation,it presents a new type of verbal political action featuring“doing things with words”;by spreading public consultation into the legislative and public decision making spheres,it displays the consultative nature of modern governance;and through public consultation,it seeks the common ground in such areas as obligation,knowledge,and interests among the different social groups.Viewed from the perspective of origin,consultative democracy emerged together with electoral democracy and both have undergone the same path:from practical exploration to theoretical research to institutional construction,starting from the political sphere and then branching in the same direction into the two spheres of state and society.Viewed from the perspective of internal spirit,the collectivism entailed by holism and the principle of unity provides value support for the formation and development of socialist consultative democracy.