本书研究创新之处在于视角和方法创新,以及一定程度的观点创新。
从视角和方法的创新角度来看,本书采用的路径选择理论框架主要是以制度成本收益分析作为研究方法,在假定一个变量相同的情况下比较另外的变量,这种研究方法已经在学术研究中相对成型。但是,从应用较为广泛的美国学术界来看,这种成本收益分析被广泛应用于行政规则的制定和实施以及侵权责任和其他政府行政规制手段的功能比较上,其并未被用于比较分析如何在生态损害法律责任行政实施机制和司法实施机制间进行制度选择;目前的欧洲法学界也正在尝试在立法和学术研究中引入成本收益分析的法经济学研究框架,但其目前尚未被各国学者援引作为分析生态损害法律责任实施机制选择问题的理论工具。可以说,本书将路径选择理论运用于生态损害法律责任实施机制的选择问题上,不同于国外学者忽略不同法律责任实施机制而将其作为整体与政府规制等其他制度工具进行对比分析的学术传统,在研究深度和广度上更进了一步。正如前述文献综述所表明的,国内已有部分学者开始关注到了生态损害法律责任行政实施机制和司法实施机制的不同制度功效,但并未形成系统的理论分析框架,这正是本书力求实现的目标。在此意义上,本书研究体现了一种研究视角方面的边际创新。
从观点创新的角度来看,就当前学界有关生态损害法律责任实施机制的主张而言,支持司法实施机制的学者占绝对多数,仅有少数提及了行政实施机制选择的可行性和合理性。本书通过对比分析后得出的结论是,行政机制和司法机制的制度功能优势均是相对的,因此对二者进行选择可能并非“非此即彼式”的“替代性”选择,而是一种“两种不完美事物”间的“互补性”选择,并且这种互补优势可以成为融合两种法律责任实施机制的理论基础,进而可以为本书提出“第三条路径”提供相应的理论支撑。也正是在这个意义上,本书将从合作治理的视角出发,构建行政机制和司法机制在生态损害法律责任实施层面的“合作”,而非单纯地指向生态损害法律责任行政实施机制或司法实施机制。若以上思路没有问题,则相较于欧美环境法学界的既有研究成果,本书的可能创新之处有二:其一,本书在运用成本收益分析方法考察两种法律责任实施机制的实施效果时,结合中国国情,选取了一些对中国而言具有影响力的因素作为参照指标,并分析这些因素对中国路径选择的影响,以此丰富了中国的理论体系,这是本书对路径选择理论的边际贡献;其二,将法律责任理解为一种规制工具,一旦本书最终形成的结论是构建一种同时融合行政机制和司法机制的混合型实施机制,则其便是一种“合作规制”,这将成为本书的另一创新之处,有利于国家环境治理体系和环境治理能力现代化。
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