The Research About The Law And Its Follows Of Political Legitimacy

How to strengthen political legitimacy construction, and remold our political authority is an hot issue of political scholars of China in recent years . This paper mainly researches political legitimacy from the perspective view of law and tries to find out the inherent mechanisms how political legitimacy generating and continuing .The author thinks that we should follow the law to strengthen our political legitimacy construction. This paper consists four main parts:The first part discussed the implication and functions of political legitimacy. Political legitimacy is a concept about the relationship of domination and obedience between the political system and the public. From the essence, political legitimacy means the voluntary acceptance ,support and obedience that the political system obtained from the public, and which are based on the public's own theoretical understanding . Political legitimacy not only can help the political system to consolidate and extend their domination, but also can promote social progress.The second part elaborated the realistic necessity to research the law of political legitimacy. Researching the law of political legitimacy is significant for strengthening our authority, for promoting the modernization process and for building a socialist harmonious society .The third part analyzed the law of political legitimacy. Political legitimacy is a dynamic evolutionary process . Its base is historical, and at the same time , the base has ethnic diversity. Political legitimacy resources is always in depletion and needs to be supplied constantly. The basis of political legitimacy is a system composed of multiple resources. Political legitimacy originate from the positive interaction between the political system and the public.The fourth part elaborated that we should follow the law to strengthen our political legitimacy construction. Guided by the law of legitimacy, we should strengthen our political construction with innovating mainstream ideology, promoting the basis of legitimacy to transit from the historical legitimacy to the reality legitimacy, choosing the model of legitimacy rationally from the national conditions, and safeguarding the interests of the public in order to realize thepositive interaction between the political system and the public.