Transcending"Labelling"and Prejudice:Reflections on the Abuse of the Authoritarian Paradigm in Western Political Science Research
In current Western political science studies,the analytical paradigm of authoritarian often provides a preset stance in the classification of political systems,studies of policy-making processes,and research of party issues.Such preset stance has significantly affected Western approaches to the political systems of non-Western countries.In both theoretical understanding and practical application,studies based on such analytical paradigm have failed to accurately interpret non-Western political systems.Instead,constrained by the western-centric ideology and unable to overcome the limitations of the"democratic vs.non-democratic"dichotomy,their final products have turned out to be a series of labels filled with bias and misunderstanding.In response,the Chinese academia,committed to constructing a localized discourse system for the study of China's political system,should engage in systematic reflections to clarify the gap between the authoritarianism in Western analysis and the political reality of non-Western countries.More importantly,such reflection should move towards the analysis of the theoretical origins and political contexts that gave birth to the research paradigm of authoritarianism,reveal the hijacking of academic research by political interests in the West,and deconstruct the legitimacy of this paradigm at fundamental level,so as to lay a foundation for research of a reflexive and transcending nature,and for a return to the Chinese stance and Chinese thinking in the study of political systems.
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