Coordination Funds

协调基金

• 批准号: 418077597
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Rene Pfeilschifter
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehrstuhl für Alte Geschichte
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Units
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2018-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/418077597?language=en
• 关键词: Coordination; Funds

The nucleus of statehood is situated at the local level: in the village, the neighborhood, the city district. This is where a community, beyond the level of the family, first develops collective rules that are intended to ensure its continued existence. But usually this is not the only level of governance at play. Above it, there are supralocal formations of power, varying in scope from regional networks to empires, which supplement the local orders or compete with them. The premise of the applicants is that local forms of self-governance are especially heterogeneous and prominent, wherever supralocal statehood exists in the mode of weak permeation. The central question of our approach is how local forms of self-governance work in this context. We will examine the relations to the state level as well as to other local groups as they develop over time; the scope and spatial contingency of forms of self-governance; their legitimization and the interdependency with the organization and collective identity of those groups which carry them out; finally, we will turn our attention to the significance of self-governance for the configuration of weak statehood. The empirical focus will be at the local level, which has so far been largely neglected in the research on governance beyond the state. In order to achieve this, we will work with case studies that are structured by categories and situated in geographical areas and time periods that lie outside of modern Europe with its particular development of statehood since the Late Middle Ages: in Antiquity and in the Global South of the present. By incorporating these different time frames, we hope to contribute to overcoming the dichotomy between the modern and pre-modern era, which is often given canonical status. Our goal is a comparative analysis of different configurations of order as well as the development of a typology of patterns of local governance. The structure of the empirical comparison itself promises methodological insights, since it will entail recognizing, dealing with, and overcoming disciplinary limitations. Starting with the identification of typical patterns and processes, we hope to get a better grasp of the mechanisms by which local configurations of order succeed, while at the same time advancing the theoretical debate. This will allow us to make an interdisciplinary contribution to the understanding of fundamental elements of statehood and local governance that are of central importance, especially in the context of weak statehood. The insights we hope to gain by adopting this historical perspective will contribute to understanding a present that is not based exclusively on its own, apparently completely new preconditions, and will thus significantly sharpen the political analysis of various forms of governance.

国家地位的核心位于地方层面：在村庄、社区、城市地区。这是社区超越家庭层面，首先制定旨在确保其持续存在的集体规则的地方。但通常这并不是唯一的治理级别。在它之上，还有超地方的权力结构，其范围从区域网络到帝国不等，它们补充地方秩序或与地方秩序竞争。申请人的前提是，地方自治形式特别多样化和突出，而超地方国家以弱渗透的模式存在。我们方法的中心问题是地方自治形式如何在这种情况下发挥作用。我们将研究的关系，以国家一级以及其他地方团体，因为他们随着时间的推移发展；自治形式的范围和空间偶然性；它们的合法性以及与执行它们的群体的组织和集体身份的相互依赖；最后，我们将把注意力转向自治对弱国家结构的意义。实证的重点将放在地方层面，这在迄今为止对国家以外治理的研究中基本上被忽视了。为了实现这一目标，我们将根据类别进行案例研究，这些案例研究位于中世纪晚期以来现代欧洲以外的地理区域和时间段：古代和现在的全球南方。通过整合这些不同的时间框架，我们希望有助于克服现代和前现代时代之间的二分法，这通常被赋予规范的地位。我们的目标是对不同的秩序配置进行比较分析，以及对地方治理模式的类型学的发展。经验比较的结构本身保证了方法论上的见解，因为它需要认识、处理和克服学科上的限制。从典型模式和过程的识别开始，我们希望更好地掌握局部秩序配置成功的机制，同时推进理论辩论。这将使我们能够对理解国家地位和地方治理的基本要素做出跨学科的贡献，这些要素至关重要，特别是在弱国家地位的背景下。我们希望通过采用这一历史观点而获得的见解将有助于理解一个不完全以其自身的、显然是全新的先决条件为基础的现在，并因此将大大加强对各种形式的治理的政治分析。