土司权力结构与运行机制研究的回顾与前瞻

Review and Prospects on Chieftain's Power Structure and Operating Mechanism

土司权力结构是指土司权力系统中各种构成要素、内部权力组织、上下层级之间构成的相互关系。目前,研究者多从土司制度本身、地方治理、边政实务等角度探讨,对土司的权力运行以及土司制度的运行机制研究较少。该问题的研究要运用民族学、历史学、政治学、管理学、社会学等多学科理论研究,既要重点加强土司的"权力赋予""权力确认""权力义务""权力传承""权威象征""权力丧失"等权力结构的系统理论,更要注重土司衙署"权力构建"、土司"权力管控""权力制衡""权力监督""权威建立"等运行机制的系统研究。只有这样,才能在学术视角、学术观点及研究方法上有所创新。

The chieftain's power structure actually was the correlation of components, inner power groups and leader-member relations in the power system. At present,most studies are on exploring the chieftain system,local governance and frontier policy practice, but not on the power operating and operating mechanism. The study on the subject has to use theories from ethnology,history, politics, management and sociology. Not only focuses on system theory of empowering, power confirming, power obligation,power inheriting, authority symbol and power losing, and also on operating mechanism of power construction of chieftain's government offices, power controlling,power balance,power monitoring and authority establishment, only in this way,innovations on academic perspective,academic views and study methods could be obtained.