政治国家与公民社会:内涵、限度及其互动

现代国家兼备阶级统治、社会管理和社会服务职能,其基本特征是政治性,核心是公共权力。公民社会是与政治国家相对应的分析范畴,是以市场经济为基础,以契约关系为中轴的社会自主领域。政治国家与公民社会各有其限度,政治国家的限度主要体现在:淹没公民社会、背离公共利益、权力寻租以及政治合法性限度;公民社会的限度主要体现在:滋生极端个人主义、导致社会两极分化,它不是民主政治的充分条件。政治国家与公民社会应建立起良性互动关系,以克服各自的消极方面,超越"零和博弈"走向"正和博弈",形成双向适度制衡和发展型互惠,形成政治国家能力强大、公民社会富有活力的新局面。

Political State and Civil Society: Meaning, Limit and Their Mutual Action

Modern state have both class domination,social administration and social service function.Its basic character is political nature.The core of modern state is public power.Civil society is a analytical category that correspond to political state.It is a social independence field that based on market economy and centers on contract connection.Political state and civil society have it self's limit.The limit of political state mostly embody in merging civil society,deviating public benefits,public power look for rent and its political validity limit.The limit of civil society mostly embody in developing out-and-out individualism,result in society polarization and it isn't the ample condition of democracy.Political state and civil society should establish benign mutual action,in order to overcome each negative aspect,transcend zero-sum game to positive-sum game,achieve bidirectional moderate restriction-balance and development model reciprocity,achieve the new-phase that political state ability mightiness and civil full of energy.