中国农村村民自治:何种民主?何以民主?

中国农村村民自治源起于20世纪80年代初,是在人民公社体制废除后,国家为了实现乡村地区的有效治理而推进的一项制度。村民自治作为中国特色社会主义的自治制度,是对传统乡村治理方式的突破,是中国民主化实践的创新之处。国内学术界对村民自治的热切关注始于上世纪90年代,针对村民自治实践中的成效与困境、性质与定位、未来发展与走向等问题也形成了诸多学术思考和学术作品。通过梳理既有文献特别是近年来的学术讨论,可以全面回顾村民自治三十余年的发展轨迹,深入剖析村民自治的实质,合理界定村民自治的民主属性,进而总结在扩展中国式民主的进程中,村民自治所能发挥的作用及其变革空间。

毛泽东和邓小平民主观之比较

在我国社会主义建设的进程中,毛泽东和邓小平的民主观极大地影响了今天的民主制度设计和建设,为中国政治民主建设做出重大贡献。对毛泽东和邓小平的民主观进行比较,有助于我们正确理解毛泽东和邓小平的民主观的重要内容和深远影响,有利于推进社会主义政治文明的进程,对于建设有中国特色的政治民主的现代化国家具有重要意义。

Repositioning Ethnicity in the Process of State Building： The Power of Culture and the Poverty of Interpretation

In this article, the author tries to analyze the incongruity between ethnicity and its theorization in China and explore the tension between the mainstream discourse of homogenization-cure-nationalism and the minority linguisticcultural ＂heteroglossia, ＂ as is typified by the conceptual and practical difficulty in translating Minzu[ I ] as well as the political revival and pragmatic use of traditional culture. Drawing on Walker Connor＇s study of the national question in Marxist-Leninist theory and strategy, the author argues that the old formula of ＂national in form, socialist in content,＂ as has been applied in China, lacks a Thirdness-based ＂indexical embodiment＂ dimension, a defect that creates a situation ＂national in form, ethnic in content,＂ and leads to political ambiguities and identity conflicts.