摘要
论文以浙江省温岭市泽国镇2008年公共预算民主恳谈会为案例,从公民会议的角度具体描述了其过程,并分析了其功能与有待完善之处。通过这次民主恳谈会的实验和对其实践的研究分析,论文得出如下基本结论:民主恳谈会是一个保障农村居民的民主决策权、民主管理权和监督权的有效的制度设计;因其公民参与的相对有效性,某种程度上使民意能够被充分吸纳,从而使政府决策的正当性、科学性得以提升;这种中国式的公民会议包含着商议性民主的一些元素,由此表明"商议-合作型治理"模式正在中国地方治理过程中逐步生成;如果能够将民主恳谈会的实践上升到法律层面,将会大大推进中国基层的民主建设和发展。
As a new form of citizen participation,citizen conference(or consensus conference) made its first appearance in Western countries before spreading to the rest of the world in the context of a rise of deliberative democracy.Some institutional innovations similar to the Western citizen conference have been witnessed in rural China.'Democratic Consultation' innovated by Wenling City of Zhejiang Province is a typical case among these innovations.Democratic consultation is a model of deliberation on local significant affairs.Based on the analytical framework of 'consensus conference',this paper provides an account of the process of the case of '2008 Public Budgetary Democratic Consultation' in Zeguo Town and analyses its functions and value,and then points out the dimensions of its improvement respectively.Based on Zeguo town case,this paper argues that 'Democratic Consultation' is an effective mechanism to provide rural people access to basic rights,going further with democratic decision-making,management and supervision,and 'Democratic Consultation' — a kind of Chinese citizen conference — bears some elements of deliberative democracy which thus indicates the gradual shaping of deliberative-cooperative governance model in rural China.It concludes that if China's governing elites can turn the experiences of 'Democratic Consultation' created by Wenling's leaders and people into the laws concerned,the rural Chinese democracy could be further developed and advanced.
出处
《公共行政评论》
2009年第4期48-70,共23页
Journal of Public Administration
关键词
公民会议
民主恳谈会
财政预算
地方治理
基层民主
Citizen Conference,Democratic Consultation,Public Budget,Process and Function,Grassroots Democracy
