Traditional Political Culture And The Contemporary Party System Development

Political culture is a popular field and effective method of modern politics. The research of political culture in the East rose in the 50a decade and got renaissance in the 80a decade after decline for a while. The research of political culture in China has bee being flourishing since the late of the 80a decade and got renaissance in the 80a decade after decline for a time. The research of political culture gives new viewpoint for us to deepen research of the party system in modern China.Because research of the party system in modern China has been researched lately and restrained by many factors, it has many fields and respects to explore though it has got a greet progress since more than ten years. The research of traditional political culture has a deep influence on development of the party system in modern China, but it is very rare to research the party system in the view of Chinese traditional political culture. The traditional political culture has a very strong affect on the birth and development of the party system in modern China, especially its negative factors have made great harm and lose to development of the party system in modern China after the establishment of the People's Republic Of China. It is important to drive healthy development of the party system in modern China through deeply understanding both positive and negative influence on development of the party system.The dissertation is made of an introduction and 7 chapters.The introduction explains the reasons and meanings of selecting this theme, the condition of research, key points and difficult points, new ideas, methods of research.The first chapter firstly makes clear the meaning and characteristics of political culture and analyze its affects on political system.Then it sum up 5 laws of development of party system: the general direction of development of party system is democratization and modernization; party systems are productions of common values and national styles; whether a party system has vital force or not depends on in what degree it realize functions; development of party system need to be institutionalized; a party system will deviate from democratic politics if it has no democratic social ecosystem. Political culture influences birth of party system and direction and road of development of party system, and decides how much nationality a party system has, whether it will become more and more democratization, and in what degree it will be institutionalized.The second chapter analyzes the characteristics of Chinese traditional political culture and its influence in modern China. Chinese traditional political culture means the political ideas, psychology, inclination of value which came into being in the past but have affect now. General speaking, Chinese traditional political culture is an...