Research On Expanding Citizens' Participation In Political Affairs In An Orderly Way In The Social Transition Period

After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Party Central Committee, the Chinese society entered a comprehensive transition period along with the reform's start and development. One of the prominent characteristics in transition period is that it is likely to be unstable, arising the massive disorderly participation in political affairs. Therefore, expanding citizens'political participation in political affairs in an orderly way has become a major concern of the Chinese society."Expanding citizens'participation in political affairs in an orderly way"is an effective way to uphold and improve the socialist democracy system. It is great significance of constructing the socialism harmonious society.Based on reviewing and evaluating the current practice of China's participation in political affairs, the dissertation probes into the theoretical thinking and strategy of realizing expanding citizens'participation in political affairs in an orderly way in the social transition period.From participation in political affairs to participation in political affairs in an orderly way, it gives a new concept of expanding citizens'participation in political affairs in an orderly way, discusses its significance and value, analyzes the characteristics of social transition period and the influence on expanding citizens'participation in political affairs in an orderly way. It proposes the train of thought and framework of orderly participation from the ecological viewpoint. It holds that realizing expanding citizens'participation in political affairs in an orderly way is the unification of environmental factor, the main body factor and the object factor. Based on this, it analyzes the situation of participation in political affairs in the social transition period, and discusses how to realize expanding citizens'participation in political affairs in an orderly way.Looking from the environmental factor, the economic development lays the material foundation of expanding citizens'participation in political affairs in an orderly way; Constructing participation-based culture is the political and cultural condition of expanding citizens'participation in political affairs in an orderly way; The electoral system reform is the important political environment of expanding citizens'participation in political affairs in an orderly way. Looking from the main body factor, the political participants'psychological motives, social characteristics and political characteristics have the major impact on expanding citizens'participation in political affairs in an orderly way. As for the political participants'psychological motives, it mainly studies its classification from initiative type and passive type, the ideal faith and the benefit assignment, obedience and compulsion. As for the political participants'social characteristics, it mainly analyzes the influences of the economic status differences, the differences between town and country, the cultural differences on expanding citizens'participation in political affairs in an orderly way in the transition period; As for the political characteristics, it analyzes different social stratum status change in the transition period, and proposes that we should promote to realize expanding citizens'participation in political affairs in an orderly way through expanding the disadvantaged groups' participation in political affairs. Looking from the object factor, it analyzes the system of people's congress, the system of multiparty cooperation and political consultation, the letter-and-visit system, the mass media structure and its political participation function under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. It proves the possibility of from the system perfection to expanding citizens'participation in political affairs in an orderly way.