摘要
本文认为渐进式制度变迁是一个可以通过"广义达尔文主义"加以解释的进化过程。我们认为,人类高级的认知能力有助于其从进化的视角来理解制度变迁。在选择和复制机制运转的基础之上不断形成的新的变异中,认知能力、认知图式和观念成为理解人类制度建立及其进化速度和范围的核心。因此,进化论为我们提供了一个宽广的理论框架,这一理论框架把认知能力、观念和决策等研究问题及其他集中研究制度变迁和人类进化的相关文献整合为一。
This article argues that questions of gradual institutional change can be understood as an evolutionary process that can be explained through the careful application of 'generalized Darwinism.' We argue that humans' advanced cognitive capacities contribute to an evolutionary understanding of institutional change. In constantly generating new variation upon which mechanisms of selection and replication operate,cognition,cognitive schemas,and idea s become central for understanding the building of human institutions,as well as the scope and pace of their evolution. Evolutionary theories thus provide a broad theoretical framework that integrates the study of cognition,ideas,and decision-making with other literatures that focus on institutional change and human evolution.
出处
《甘肃行政学院学报》
CSSCI
2014年第2期55-69,共15页
Journal of Gansu Administration Institute
基金
"南开大学基本科研业务费专项资金项目"资助
关键词
制度变迁
进化论
新制度主义
广义达尔文主义
认知学
Institutional change
Evolutionary theory
New institutionalism
Generalized Darwinism
Cognitive science
