调解兴衰与当代中国法院政治功能的变迁——以《最高人民法院工作报告》(1981年-2010年)为对象

上世纪80年代以来,中国调解制度经历了着重调解———自愿调解———调解优先的过程。在着重调解阶段,法院具有动员人们参与有中国特色社会主义建设和法律现代化的进程,消解经济发展带来的民众脱离政治依附性的离心力的政治功能;在自愿调解阶段,法院具有进一步强化中国特色社会主义建设和法律现代化这一基本方向的政治功能;在调解优先阶段,法院具有重新恢复民众对于社会现代化和法律现代化信心的政治动员功能。

The Ebb and the Flow of Mediate and Changes of the Political Function of People Court

Since 1980,the mediate system has gone through the process of the ebb and the flow.In the process,at first,court emphasized the function of mediate;Some years past,it has more and more emphasized that people use mediate according to their voluntary.In recent years,it considers that mediate has precedence over judgment.At the first stage,court undertook to mobilize people to participate in the socialist cause and legal modernization.At the second stage,court has the Political Function that it strengthens the basic direction of the socialist cause and legal modernization.At the third stage,court must to resume people’s faith of socialist cause and legal modernization.