中国传统法律文化的重新解读与韦伯旧论的颠覆——《韦伯论中国传统法律:韦伯比较社会学的批判》评介

台湾大学社会学系的林端教授于2003年出版的《韦伯论中国传统法律:韦伯比较社会学的批判》一书全面系统地批判了韦伯关于中国法律传统的论断。该书在社会学方法论上指出了韦伯比较社会学里二元对立的理想型比较的局限;在实质社会学分析上则结合学界对清代法律和司法审判的研究成果,说明了韦伯对中国传统法律与司法审判的看法存在误解与局限。在此基础上,林端教授认为,若要深刻理解中国法律传统,关键在于把握体现于其中的“多值逻辑”。     

Max Weber in the tropics: How global climate politics facilitates the bureaucratization of forestry in Indonesia

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) is one of the most advanced global climate governance arrangements and we show that it contributes to the buildup of autonomous capacities and reliable procedures in areas of rather limited statehood. These partially unintended effects can be conceptualized as an increasing rational–legal bureaucratization, which has been initiated through both external and domestic actors as we illuminate in the case of Indonesia's forestry sector in the period from 2007 until 2017. Our finding is that a bureaucratization of a new kind is increasingly strengthened in Indonesia's forest despite enduring patterns of neopatrimonialism, emerging signs of new public management approaches, and the strengthening of functional equivalents such as community-based forest management. We thus claim that Max Weber's perspective on the prospects and problems of rational–legal bureaucratization is still valuable, even when travelling to the tropics.