Chinese Communist Party's ability of governance is a basic construction as coming into power, and it links the constructions of party with the constructions of socialist modernization. This paper gives a systematical discussion on the basic theory of the construction of governance ability from theory to practice, as well as its goals, paths and methods, on the basis of dialectical materialism and historical materialism. It also draws some lessons from process and function method in political science. The paper divides into five parts. It mainly states that strengthening the governance ability have great practical meaning to the Party in the Introduction, and it also says that there is some theoretical space to study on this theme. Strengthening the governance ability of the Party is not only the external needs of new changes of environment and the new tasks of the governance, but also the inevitable needs of any party in the world. It has special importance to the proletarian parties. In Chapter 1, the paper goes deep into some theories of construction of governance ability. First, the conception and connotation of the governance ability is discussed. I start from the Marxist theme that ability is " a public revelation of human nature" and "governance is a process", as well as integrating the points of the nature, functions and process of governance. Then I discuss the conception and connotation of governance ability. Second, I give a qualitative analysis to the evaluation of the governance ability. The people are the leading body that has the right to evaluate governance ability. And sectors and elements in the governance process and the condition of their interaction are the main contents of governance ability. Governance ability differentiates between strength and weakness, and it also involves the issues of rightness and reasonability. It has four dimensions, namely field, quantity, quality and degree, and each dimension has its limit. Third, I give an extensive consideration on the theoretical principles of the construction of governance ability. Generally, it shall follow the principle of wholeness, historical principle, the principle of governance for the people, the principle of balance and the principle of universalism and particularism. Finally, I clearly elucidate the theoretical basis of the choices of goals and paths to the governance ability construction. In the Chapter 2, I discuss the goals and paths of the construction of governance ability of the CCP. On the general theory of governance ability and concrete understanding in the 16th Congress of Chinese Communist Party, I point out that the fundamental goal of the construction of governance ability of the party is to strengthen the Party's ability to do more for the people, that is, to satisfy all kinds of needs of the people, and to obtain people's conscious supports and recognition. The governance abilities of the party include development and order. Accordingly, the Party should have the ability of leading social development and the ability of maintaining social order. Former includes three dimensions, namely, economics, politics, and culture, and latter includes the ability of controlling international situations abroad and implementing social integration in domestic in normal condition and the ability of crisis management in other situations. According to the theory of process ,legitimacy of governance and the practice of the Party, I articulate the paths that lead to the construction of governance ability. First path is improving the Party's governance mechanism (the legitimacy of institutions); and the second path is to strengthen the Party's self-construction (the legitimacy of ideology). In Chapter 3, I discuss the ideas of how to improve the Party's governance mechanism. Governance mechanism is not only a static structure, but also a dynamic structure. In order to achieve the goal, first, we should take scientific governance as fundamental rule. "Scientific" means the unification of law and efficiency. So we should follow... |