融通与互动:社会资本与协商治理的内在逻辑

Integration and Interaction:Inherent Logic of Social Capital and Consultative Governance

社会资本主要是指存在于人们关系结构中的信任、规范和网络;协商治理注重互信基础上的合作行动,是国家治理的本质体现。社会资本的内涵与协商治理的旨意具有紧密的内在关联性,即社会资本的孕育与协商治理的运行都以公共领域作为平台,均涉及到人与人之间的关系问题,皆为了破解集体行动困境,从而实现某一共同体的公共利益。社会资本对协商治理面临的问题具有较强解释力,因而社会资本就成为研究协商治理公共事务的新维度。一方面,社会资本为协商治理提供社会资源和基础,表现在社会信任是协商治理的心理基础、互惠规范是协商治理的重要支柱、公民参与网络是协商治理的动力源泉;另一方面,协商治理有助于社会资本的培育,体现为协商治理能够为社会信任提供重要保障、促进社会规范形成、拓宽公民参与网络渠道。因此,社会资本与协商治理具有融通与互动的内在逻辑。

Social capital mainly refers to the trust,norm and network existing in people’s relationship structure.Consultative governance stresses on cooperative actions based on mutual trust,which is the essence of national governance.The connotation of social capital is closely related to the intent of consultative governance,that is,both the conceiving of social capital and the operation of consultative governance adopt the public sphere as a platform,both involve the relationship between people,both aim at solving the dilemma of collective action and realizing the public interests of a certain community.Social capital has a comparatively strong explanatory power to the problems faced by consultative governance,so social capital has become a new dimension to the study of public affairs in consultative governance.On the one hand,social capital provides social resources and foundation for consultative governance,in that social trust is the psychological foundation of consultative governance,that reciprocal norms are an important pillar of consultative governance,and that citizen participation network is the engine for consultative governance.On the other hand,consultative governance contributes to the cultivation of social capital,in that it can provide an important guarantee for social trust,promote the formation of social norms and broaden the channels of citizen participation network.Therefore,there is inherent logic for social capital and consultative governance to integrate and interact.