This article advances our understanding of the key values for democratic-governance innovation by integrating two important, yet divergent, discourses—the one on democratic innovations, the other on governance innovations—thus capitalizing on their mutually reinforcing potential. The result is an integrative framework of core values, related normative coordinates, and key questions for improving democratic governance. The integrative values framework refines our understanding of the fundamental value diversity surrounding democratic governance innovation, and facilitates, as a sensitizing framework, critical analysis, evaluation, and design thinking. The values framework integrates core values—inclusiveness, efficaciousness, appropriateness, resilience, and counterbalance—which are complementary but not without friction. Mindfulness of the fundamental value diversity is critical for handling democratic governance innovation in a more encompassing value-sensitive way. For realistically applying the values framework, acknowledging the complementarities and tensions between core values, roads ahead are discussed stressing necessarily open and situated conversations.

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民主治理创新的关键价值：两个传统和一个综合

本文通过整合两个重要但不同的话语——一个关于民主创新，另一个关于治理创新——从而利用它们相辅相成的潜力，加深了我们对民主治理创新的关键价值的理解。结果是核心价值观、相关规范坐标和改进民主治理的关键问题的综合框架。综合价值框架完善了我们对围绕民主治理创新的基本价值多样性的理解，并作为一个敏感框架促进了批判性分析、评估和设计思维。价值观框架整合了核心价值观——包容性、有效性、适当性、弹性和平衡性——它们是互补的，但并非没有摩擦。关注基本价值多样性对于以更包容的价值敏感方式处理民主治理创新至关重要。为了现实地应用价值观框架，承认核心价值观之间的互补性和张力，我们讨论了前进的道路，强调必须进行开放和定位的对话。