【作者简介】潘桐，中国人民大学社会学理论与方法研究中心博士研究生，主要研究方向为政治社会学、艺术社会学和组织社会学。

【文章来源】《社会学评论》2024年第2期

【内容提要】权责失衡并不是基层治理中面临的重要问题，而是体制特性决定的治理状态。有价值的讨论是如何基于这一状态实现治理方式与治理目标的统一。本文以一起民间纠纷为研究案例，揭示基层政府如何将“体制势能”转化为“治理实能”以实现治理活动中的权责均衡。这一转化机制的核心在于通过行政吸纳、利益吸纳的方式使基层政府、村干部和村民并行于同一行动链条中，本质上是国家与乡土社会的重连。而这一重连必须抓住两方面关系：其一是基层政府与村干部的连结，其二是村干部与村民的团结。前者指向了公共性如何与社会性衔接，而后者则意味着乡土社会应如何实现从社会性向更有秩序与力量的公共性的转化。

【关键词】体制势能 / 治理实能 / 行政吸纳 / 利益吸纳 / 权责均衡

【基金项目】中国人民大学科学研究基金（中央高校基本科研业务费专项资金资助）项目（21XNH145）

【全文链接】http://src.ruc.edu.cn/CN/Y2024/V12/I2/240

Balance of Power and Responsibility:From Institutional Potential Energy to Governance Capability

PAN Tong

Abstract：The imbalance of power and responsibility is not significant in grass-roots governance. It is a state of governance determined by the characteristics of the system. Given that premise, the valuable discussion is about how to achieve the unity of governance methods and governance goals based on this state. This paper intends to take a civil dispute as the case to reveal how the grass-roots government transforms“institutional potential energy”into“governance practical ability”to achieve the balance of power and responsibility in governance activities. The core of this transformation mechanism is to make the grass-roots government, village cadres and villagers paralleled in the same action chain through the way of “administrative Absorption”and“interest absorption”, which，in essence，is the reconnection between the state and the local society. There are two aspects this reconnection must emphasize: one is the connection between the grass-roots government and the village cadres, and the other is the unity between the village cadres and the villagers. The former points to how publicity is connected to sociality, and the latter means how rural society could realize the transformation from sociality to more orderly and powerful publicity.

Keywords: institutional potential energy / governance capability / administrative absorption / interest absorption / balance of power and responsibility