Huntington 's Political Stability Theory And Its Enlightenment To China

Stable political environment is the important cornerstone of sustained and sound development for every sovereign country, especially in the context of globalization, all the countries in the world learn the important significance of it from the collision and blend among economy, politics and culture. The book Politic Order in Changing Societies written by famous American politician Samuel·P·Huntington analyzes political stability on basis of different aspects such as political order, political modernization, the difference of polity, reform and revolution, parties and so on. Huntington takes the faster pace of modernization, low level of systematization, social inequality and corruption as political uncertainty. In such case, he puts forward some approaches for political stability, they are building strong and effective government, putting complex difficult political reform into effect, improving the level of systematization and establishing advanced political party system.At present, our country is faced with both many crucial problems in reform and crucial chances in development, so keeping the stable environment is of great importance in the periond of socialist modernization. Because Huntington’s theory is refined on the development experience of Japan, Korea and other countries which have the same cultural and historical background with us, so compared with the other western political theories, his theory is more useful for our current reform. According to Huntington’s advices for political stability, combining them with our political mission now, we find that a series of policy, which including enhancing the political legitimacy foundation of our party, carrying out process reform, containing political corruption, raising the level of institutionalization, can help our country optimize development environment for realizing Chinese Dream and achieve the goal of development in the future.