中国和印度的制度创新带来了经济上的加速度增长,验证了制度变迁理论的一个基本假设,即制度安排的变迁导致经济绩效的变化。但是,两国制度安排上的变化是在既定的制度结构不变的前提下发生的,而两国的制度结构又是如此不同,因而对传统的制度理论构成了挑战。事实上,两国的制度创新和经济增长主要来自思想观念的革命性变化。因此,要成功地解释决定历史基本走向的关键时刻和关键事件,政治学研究应该在已经取得重大成就的政治科学方法论的基础上吸纳政治哲学的思想观念。

Institutional innovation in China and India has led to fast growth,which seems to testify the theory of institutional change that change of institutional arrangement will lead to different economic performance.However,the change of institutional arrangements of the two nations occured under the unchanged political structures,and the nature of them is so different,this challenges the theory of institutional change.In fact,it is new ideas that give rise to the institutional innovation in the two nations.Therefore,neo-institutionalism,to be an approach of political science,should absorb ideas of political philosophy in order to successfully explain critical juncture that determines historical development.