Research On Grassroots Deliberative Democracy Of Rural China

In the eighties of the20th century in western capitalist democratic politicstheoretical reflection and practical development process, the western political scholarsemerges a new democratic theory and democratic practices in the form of deliberativedemocracy. Although deliberative democracy theory originated in the west, thedevelopment in Western,China began to officially launch attempt to its theoreticalresearch and practice at the beginning of the21st century, but the system of socialismwith Chinese characteristics and has natural coupling, has certain adaptability andapplicability resources in China, deliberative democracy should become a newperspective and new forms of the development of socialist democratic politics withChinese characteristics.The countryside is the cornerstone of the national political structure building, thelevel of the rural governance and the stability of the country directly affect the wholecountry’s governance and stability, and the rural safety is the world governance. Basicdemocracy is the basic project of the construction of democratic politics for socialismwith Chinese characteristics. Democracy at the grass-roots level in rural areas as animportant part of democracy at the grass-roots level is an important guarantee for theeffective rural governance and stable development, is an important standard to measurethe democracy of socialism with Chinese characteristics, is the analysis andobservation of socialist democracy with Chinese characteristics and the developmentdirection of intuitive starting point. To further promote the building of grassrootsdemocracy in rural areas and the building of socialist democratic politics with Chinesecharacteristics is the inherent requirement, but also the construction of socialistmodernization with Chinese characteristics the smooth development of the inevitablerequirement. At present, the rural basic level democratic construction in our countryappeared of deliberative democracy in many important features and development trend,the deliberative democracy is applied to the practical management of rural grassroots,combining theory with practice, formed with Chinese characteristics of rural grassroots deliberative democracy theory, for the building of grassroots democracy in rural Chinahas great practical significance.China is in the crucial period of democratic political reform and economicdevelopment, and it is the important policy for the development of the country to speedup the development of rural grassroots deliberative democracy. The18big reports ofthe party made it clear that deliberative democracy and improve the socialist system, toperfect the deliberative democracy system and working mechanism, promote thedeliberative democracy widely, multilayer, institutional development, actively carryout grassroots deliberative democracy. The Third Plenary Session of the party’seighteen further put forward, pay more attention to improve the democratic system,enrich the forms of democracy, give full play to the superiority of China’s socialistpolitical system, pushes forward the development of deliberative democracy in a widerange of multi system, the development of democracy at the grassroots level. China’srural grassroots deliberative democracy is a continuous process. Under the newsituation, how to build rural grassroots deliberative democracy, to promote thebuilding of grassroots democracy in rural areas, to create a harmonious, civilized andstable social environment for rural development and nation building, is still animportant issue placed in front of us.This paper is divided into six parts: the first part: introduction. This paper mainlyexpounds the background and significance, the domestic and foreign research status,the research ideas and methods of the research on the topics of the grassrootsdeliberative democracy of rural China, and the innovation points and deficiencies ofthis paper.The second part is the theoretical basis of grassroots deliberative democracy ofrural China. This part mainly introduces the origin of Marx’s theory of the socialistdemocracy, connotation, basic ideas and the essential characteristics of socialism andthe Communist Party of China deliberative democracy theory formation development,connotation and modern value, provides the scientific theory basis and methodguidance for the study of grassroots deliberative democracy of rural China.The third part is the basic theory of grassroots deliberative democracy of ruralChina. This part mainly introduces the basic connotation of grassroots deliberativedemocracy of rural China, the important features of Chinese rural grassrootsdeliberative democracy: public nature, equality and interactivity and the significance of Chinese rural grassroots deliberative democracy: strengthening village master status,promote new socialist rural construction and promote the process of socialistdemocratic politics.The fourth part: the historical evolution of the grassroots deliberative democracyof rural China. In this part, from the angle of historical development, comprehensivecombing and summary in the period of the new democratic revolution, the period ofsocialist reform and construction, the "Cultural Revolution" period and the reform andopening-up, the thought and the practice of the construction of grassroots deliberativedemocracy of rural China of beneficial exploration and attempt, grasp the ruralgrassroots democratic political movement law and historical experience, to lay a solidfoundation for the analysis of the current situation and development trend of ruralgrassroots deliberative democracy.The fifth part: the basic situation and the cause of the grassroots deliberativedemocracy of rural China. Chinese rural grassroots deliberative democracy has madesome achievements in the development process, including rural grassroots deliberativedemocracy system established, expanding coverage, to gradually deepen, carrier formsbecome more abundant, also exist many problems, mainly in: the villagers on itspolicy cognitive approach, single part of the "two committees" function the dislocationinduced by deliberative democracy is low efficiency, low degree of involvement of thevillagers and their institutional level is still low, is the cause of this phenomenon: thevillage cadres and villagers on the cognitive degree is not enough, the traditional ruralmanagement idea to restrict its development, and the lack of effective supervision andmanagement system, internal and external policy supply and villagers in the demandimbalance.The sixth part: the path choice of promoting the development of the grassrootsdeliberative democracy of rural China. According to the basic situation and thecauses of the grassroots deliberative democracy of rural China, we take the effectivemeasures to promote its development, and it is the inherent requirement of theconstruction of democratic politics for socialism with Chinese characteristics. The pathto promote rural grassroots deliberative democracy development include: ruralgrassroots deliberative democracy platform, that is to improve the Urban and rural twoeconomic structure, to promote rural grassroots democratic self-government, farmersbuild network information platform; rural grassroots deliberative democracy popularization, that is to carry out the special training, to strengthen the mediapropaganda, enhance the farmers’ Ideological and political ideas and culture the qualityof rural grassroots deliberative democracy; rule of law, that is to increase itspreferential policies, strengthen the system construction, improve the supervisionmechanism; rural grassroots democratic consultation procedures, namely "combinationelection" of the electoral system, improve the beneficial attempt of the village publicaffairs of the democratic decision-making process, the evaluation and feedbackmechanism innovation. Rural grassroots deliberative democracy platform,popularization, the rule of law and procedure will effectively promote the in-depthdevelopment and effective operation, and promote the sustained and healthydevelopment of the socialist democratic politics with Chinese characteristics.