Social Sciences in China (Chinese Edition)

No.6, 2018

Governance of Social Organizations under an Inclusive Rule of Law Framework

(Abstract)

Zhang Qing and Wu Yan

We need to address and find a theoretical response for the important question of the type of rule of law framework that social organizations, with their limited autonomy, need to be embedded in to realize coordinated co-governance and win-win cooperation with government on the basis of the rule of law inclusiveness. As a rule of law ideal marked by inclusiveness and transcendence, the inclusive rule of law is not only intrinsically compatible with the multi-centered and multi-level operation of governance theory, but can also be used to resolve the structural bottleneck of a single set of norms, systems and means in the operation of social organizations. The governance of social organizations under this inclusive framework is not only normative but also participatory. The inclusive rule of law provides a realistic and viable governance framework for researching and evaluating the obstacles, prospects and pathway of the development of social organizations in China, and opens up a new field for the normative governance of social organizations.