创新社会矛盾化解机制是实现国家治理能力现代化的重要环节。对此,国家视角的制度分析往往忽略了社会矛盾产生的复杂逻辑;底层视角的经验研究虽然揭示出了这种复杂逻辑,但没有将其与国家制度创新进行有效衔接。作为上承国家意志、下接民众诉求的关键结点,基层治权视角对深入理解社会矛盾的表现形式、产生原因和解决对策具有重要的理论价值。然而,当前的资源下乡和规范下乡对基层治权赖以运转的价值、组织和社会基础造成了巨大冲击,在推高基层治理成本的同时,也束缚了其化解社会矛盾的能力。为此,重回中国特色的简约治理,并以自治、法治、德治“三治融合”重塑基层治权才是实现基层治理现代化的必由之路。
Reinforcing Grassroots Governance Through "Three Governance Integration"
Gui Xiaowei(Wuhan University)
Abstract An innovative and effective resolution of social conflicts is important for improving state-society relations and modernizing national governance capacity. In this regard, macro-institutional analysis from the "state perspective" often simplifies the complex logic behind social conflicts; micro-empirical re‐ search from the "grassroots perspective" helps to understand farmers' politics of survival, but lacks the theoretical consciousness to connect it with national institutional changes. As a key node for implementing the state's will and understanding people's demands, "grassroots governance" provides a useful perspective for analyzing state-society interactions and thus deepens our understanding of the manifestations, causes, and solutions of social conflicts. However, the normative governance that accompanies the movement of state resources to the countryside has exerted tremendous impacts on the values, organization, and social foundation on which "grassroots governance" is based, which has not only pushed up the cost of grassroots governance, but also made it incapable of resolving social conflicts. To this end, the way to modernize grassroots governance is to return to "minimal governance" with Chinese characteristics and to reshape grassroots governance with the integration of autonomy, rule of law and moral governance.
Key words social conflicts; the modernization of governance capacity; the power of grassroots governance; local government; minimal governance; rural society; farmer actions; mass work
■ 作者简介 桂晓伟,法学博士,社会学博士,武汉大学社会学院副教授、硕士生导师;湖北 武汉430072。