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Study On Resources In The Legitimacy Of Holding Power Of CCP

Posted on:2011-06-01Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:W G YeFull Text:PDF
GTID:1116360305498737Subject:Political Theory
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Legitimacy is one of the most important theoretical and practical issues which couldn't be ignored by any party. Continuous cultivating and consolidating legitimacy resources and also enhancing reign ability and base is one of necessary conditions and key measures for stabilization and consolidation of regime, and also significant to CPC(Communist Party of China).During a longer period of time from the founding of the PRC (People's Republic of China) till reform and opening up, due to various reasons, the CPC had neglected the legitimacy issues to some degree, claiming that there would be legitimacy problem only under capitalist regime and its ruling party, and this kind of misunderstanding led several unmoral phenomena to happen in China, which caused serious loss of legitimacy resources. After the Third Plenum, the CPC began to have a clear understanding of their legitimacy and focused in accordance with the laws of political parties to develop legitimate resources. Till the period between late 1980s and early 1990s, the prosperity and decline of worldwide- ruling parties, especially the drastic changes that occurred in Soviet Union and Eastern European socialist countries, caused great concerns in the Chinese Communist Party. They then realized that revolutionary rationality couldn't substitute legitimacy of ruling, the past didn't mean advancement of today, and historical achievements in the past couldn't replace realistic actions. CPC also realized that the gain and maintenance of legitimacy resources is a dynamic course. They can achieve recognition and support of people and win the legitimacy of power only under the condition that they are always caring about people. CPC also understood that they must follow the governing rules and constantly improve their governance capability, so as to make sure the legitimacy supply and always maintain the youthful vitality of CPC. The purpose of this pepper is to reveal the reigning laws of Communist China, especially the laws of the construction of legitimacy resources to search better measures for government. The paper firstly puts forward the concept and types around legitimacy resources research of CPC, and then made distinguish with other similar but differentiated concepts—ruling resource and organizational resource, and also clarified the significance of legitimacy.Author took synchronic analysis and diachronic analysis respectively. From synchronic aspect, the major legitimacy resources are communist ideology resources, socialist political system resources, old negative social resource, rule performance and personal charismatic resources. From diachronic aspect, three periods were carved up during history of PRC, which are transition from new democracy to socialism (Oct,1949 to 1956), tortuous development of social period (1957 to Third Plenary Session of Convention of 1978), the new period of socialist modernization construction (Third Plenary Session of the Convention of 1878 till 2009). The author took depth analysis of legitimacy resources in the three periods and found out resources are different in different times. Therefore, we should consider and treat legitimacy problems in developing views and maintain them according to the characteristic and changes of times.Author pointed out several problems CPC faced nowadays, which can be regarded as challenges from three levels:on the level of political system, the problem is mainly the corruption in political development, and the contradiction between the extension of political participation and the defect of participation mechanism; on the ideological level, the main problem is the tension between the communism ideology and different understandings toward contemporary political culture, and the tension between communism ideology and the practice of the opening-up reformation in China; on the reign performance level, there are problems of the predicament of economic performance, the differentiation of economic interests, the challenge from the new social class, the emerging social justice issues, and the predicament of stability-oriented performance, etc.Thought of how to construct legitimacy resources were carried out under the background of home and broad and combination of challenges. In the author's opinion, political legitimacy can be developed from construction and improvement of regulatory mechanism, political participation, integration, political compromise mechanism and such areas; Ideological legitimacy can be carried on from the construction and improvement of the consensus-reaching mechanism and the creation mechanism; Ruling performance legitimacy can be developed from construction and improvement of deriving mechanism, coordination system, redistribution mechanism and social security systems.The important purpose of the paper is to achieve regularity understanding of legitimacy resources of CPC through synchronic analysis and diachronic analysis. Therefore, there would be summary, sorting and conclusion at the ending and then comes out some revelations.
Keywords/Search Tags:CPC (Communist Party of China), Reign, Legitimacy, Legitimacy Resource
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