法治
Colonial Justice in British India 豆瓣
作者:
Elizabeth Kolsky
Cambridge University Press
2010
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法治与“民主迷信” 豆瓣
作者:
潘维
香港社会科学出版有限公司
2003
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谁会宣称自己不是民主制的支持者呢?民主全能。民主能让人民都作主,能治腐败,能让人人平等,能让政治清明,能让世界上所有的老百姓都过上好日子。它高于家庭、高于民族、高于主权、高于人权,还高于一切非西方人的生命权。这就是目前弥漫于世人之间的民主迷信!笔者不反民主,甚至还有些喜欢民主,可也不信民主教,更不信那些虔诚的“启蒙”者能把中国人民都变成民主信徒。中国充满困境,但笔者不信民主能解决中国社会的主要困难。笔者希望回到政治文明的原点来讨论民主,讨论民主化,讨论今天的民主十字军。这么做的目的只有一个,就是提醒国人,不要从一个陷阱跳入另一个陷阱。就目前中国的情况而论,适宜建立的不是虚妄的民主,而是法治导向、由六大支柱构成的所谓“咨询型法治”。这六大支柱包括中立的文官系统;自主的司法系统;独立的反贪机构;独立的审计系统;以全国和省人民代表大会为核心的广泛的社会咨询系统;以及受法律充分保护的言论、出版、集会和结社的自由。这种法治有六大特点,即强调“法律”作主,拒绝“人民”做主;强调法的正义性,因而特别重视“法律面前人人平等”;强调严格执法的重要性,刻意增加立法难度;强调限制政府的职能和规模,造就有限政府,保障社会经济生活的自由,从而鼓励民族的创造力;强调政府行为的透明;强调追求符合中华传统的秩序与自由。本书所收论文,从法治、现代化和秩序等不同的角度讨论了上述问题。
'The Commonwealth of Oceana' and 'A System of Politics' 豆瓣
作者:
James Harrington
Cambridge University Press
1992
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James Harrington's brief career as a political and historical theorist spans the last years of the Cromwellian Protectorate and the Restoration of 1660. This 1992 volume comprises the first and last of Harrington's writings. Harrington was the first theorist to interpret the English Civil Wars as a revolution, the result of a long-term process of social change which led to the decay of the old political order. The Commonwealth of Oceana (1656) is a fictionalised presentation of English history up to the victory of the New Model Army, explaining the fall of the monarchy and proposing a republic to replace it. A System of Politics, written after the Restoration, is a scheme of history and political philosophy erected on the foundations of his previous works. Professor Pocock's introduction emphasises Harrington's place as a pivotal figure in the history of English political thought. This edition also contains a chronology of events in Harrington's life and a guide to further reading.