政体相对效率的决定因素

一个社会对公共物品的需求比较齐一、比较稳定时,专制政体往往比民主政体更有效率.一个社会对公共物品的需求呈现多元化差异化,且较易变动时,民主政体将比专制政体更有效率.决定民主政体与专制政体的相对效率的另一个重要因素是社会人际关系的结构特征.人类的合作关系有两种基本的理念类型:平等交易型合作和庇护依附型合作.如果交易型合作关系或者说平等--互信的网状平行合作结构的比重更高,那么社会就容易积累社会资本,社会资本越多民主政体的效率往往也就越高.民主政体与专制政体的相对效率还要取决于一个社会的幅员广狭,交通条件,人口密度.

Factors for Determining the Relative Efficiency of Autocracy and Democracies

This paper focuses on the efficiency standards and fairness standards of political system.The relative efficiency of autocracy and democracies is determined by the social demand for public goods and structural features of social relationships.For instance,autocracy is often more efficient than democracies when social demand for public goods is relatively uniform and stable or when Equal-transaction Cooperation accounts for a larger proportion in cooperation relationships related to Asylum-dependence Coopera...