普遍性原则:宪政民主的理想目标——评《原则政治,而非利益政治——通向非歧视性民主》

依据普遍性原则,民主可以被分类为歧视性民主和非歧视性民主,而走向非歧视性民主是未来民主政治的发展方向。美国著名经济学家、1986年诺贝尔经济学奖获得者詹姆斯.布坎南教授和另一名著名经济学家罗杰.康格尔顿教授合著的《原则政治,而非利益政治——通向非歧视性民主》一书不仅提出了这一重大理论问题,而且通过将政治决策的分析同经济理论结合起来的方式,用经济学的眼光探讨了将普遍性规则运用于政治领域的可能性,试图突破宪政民主中存在的死穴——歧视性民主。

Principle of Generalization: Ideal Goal for Constitutional Democracy

Democracy can be categorized as the discriminatory democracy and the nondiscriminatory Democracy,but the orientation for the development of democratic politics is towards the nondiscriminatory Democracy.Not only did the work "Politics by Principle,Not Interest-Towards Nondiscriminatory Democracy" by James M.Buchanan,a famous American economist,the Nobel Prize Winner of economics in 1986 and Roger D.Congleton,a senior research associate in the Center for Studies of Public Choice at George Mason University came up with the theoretical issue of great importance in perspective of economists,it also explored the possibilities to extend the principle of generalization to political sphere by way of combining the analysis on the political policy-making with economic theories,an attempt to break through the impasse of constitutional democracy-discriminatory democracy.This paper is the comments of the translator on the work.