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政务学院童志超副教授于政治学国际权威期刊British Journal of Political Science发表论文

发布人:傅理律

     近日,英国威廉集团、中国公共管理研究中心童志超副教授在政治学国际权威期刊British Journal of Political Science发表题名Defensible Democratic Meritocracy: A Competition-Based Account 的学术论文。

 

 

作者简介:
        童志超,英国威廉集团、中国公共管理研究中心副教授、硕士生导师,加拿大多伦多大学博士,研究领域为当代政治哲学、规范民主理论、比较政治理论、政治认识论。

 

期刊简介:

        《英国政治学杂志》(British Journal of Political Science),由剑桥大学出版社创刊于1971年,内容涵盖政治科学的所有领域(包括政治理论、政治行为、公共政策和国际关系)以及相关学科(社会学、社会心理学、经济学和哲学)。2024年,该期刊的5年影响因子为5.7。

 

文章摘要:

        本文提供了对民主尚贤制新的辩护。既有的对这种混合政体的辩护集中于以下两点,一是普通民众缺乏充分的政治知识,二是强调由有卓越才能的领导者执政的重要性。但鉴于选举民主也包含一系列内嵌机制——其与有效运行的政党体制结合能够减少普通选民的认知负担,并赋权于更有能力的政党领袖——这种辩护便不再足以令人信服。具体来说,它们没能证明这些内嵌机制会如何被选举民主的其他固有特征所弱化,使得以民主尚贤制为代表的混合政体成为可欲的替代方案。本文通过深入剖析一种设计完善的民主尚贤制,论证其如何能更有效地规避无序政治竞争所产生的弊病。这些弊病不仅本身危害显著,还会削弱选举民主实现善治的能力。

 

Abstract

The article offers a new defense of democratic meritocracy. Existing defenses of the hybrid regime have centered on ordinary citizens’ lack of sophisticated political knowledge and the importance of having particularly able individuals in charge of governing. But since electoral democracy also contains certain built-in mechanisms that, when combined with a functioning party system, are capable of reducing the cognitive burdens of average voters and empowering more competent individuals, such defenses fail to make a compelling case for democratic meritocracy. Specifically, they owe us a fully developed account of how those mechanisms of electoral democracy will be weakened by its other inherent features so that the hybrid regime becomes a desirable alternative. This article provides such an account by exploring how a well-designed democratic meritocracy can better avoid pathologies of unconstrained political competition that are not only troublesome in themselves but which also undermine electoral democracy’s ability to generate superior political outcomes.

 

 

原文链接:https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123425101142