单位制研究的“新传统主义”及有关争论

魏昂德的"新传统主义"概念为中国单位制研究在极权主义和多元主义范式之外为提供了一种新的分析视角,其理论前提在于国家高度集中的再分配体制垄断了重要的社会资源,而这成为国家整合和控制单位组织及其成员的手段和工具。分析梳理了学界对"新传统主义"单位制研究的批评及争论,指出单位制研究将面向多元化的具体组织情景,回归到真实的组织运作过程,由此将生发出新的理论增长点。     

Local governance and spatial distribution of resources: The need to harness traditional leadership for service delivery in South Africa

Abstract

Using a combination of qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis methods, the aim of the study forming the basis of the article was to examine how traditional leadership can be harnessed for the purposes of service delivery at the local level in South Africa. Specifically, the study sought to examine the juxtaposition of traditional and modern forms of governance in South Africa (institutional duality) and the role traditional leaders play in the provision and delivery of social and economic services to the sections of the population within their jurisdictions. The results of the study confirmed the existence of this institutional duality with regard to the Southern African institutional culture. In other words, even though traditional leaders no longer wield the considerable administrative, legislative and judicial powers they used to exercise over the chiefdoms, they are still very much part of the institutional culture of South Africa and the sub-region.