社会整体利益代表机制研究--兼论公益诉讼的理论基础

社会整体利益是经济法的基本范畴,是社会作为一个系统所具有的独立的利益,区别于社会成员个体的利益与部分社会成员所组成的子系统的利益。国家作为社会整体利益的当然代表,既具合法性、正当性,也存在一定的缺陷。因此,应建立社会整体利益的补充代表机制加以弥补。这一补充代表机制无论在立法、执法中均已有所体现,但尚需进一步完善。在司法领域,建立社会整体利益的补充代表机制,有助于奠定公益诉讼的理论基础。正确认识社会整体利益及其代表机制,有助于克服经济法学中的国家主义倾向,正确把握经济法的定位和价值目标。

A Study on the Representative Mechanism of the Social Benefit

Social benefit is a basic category of economic law. As a self-contained benefit of the society as a system, it differs from that of the individual member and the subsystems composed of individuals in the society. It is valid, just, and yet defective when the state becomes the natural representative . Therefore, the compensatory representative mechanism of the social benefit should be established to remedy the defects of the state. It has been realized in the legislation and execution of the law, but should be improved. Establishing the compensatory representative mechanism will help to lay the theoretical basis of commonweal litigation. A correct understanding of social benefit and its representative mechanism will help offset the trend of nationalism in economic law and keep up to date with the positioning and value goals of economic law.