The Difference Between Aristocracy Politics And Bureaucracy Politics And Its Cultural Interpretation

During the Spring and Autumn Period, the transformation from aristocracy politics to bureaucracy politics assumes an important part in social change. The present study explores this transformation within the framework of interrelation between power distribution, power constraint, and power subject, based on political theory. The study is systematically carried out through the comparison of two political forms via analysis of cultural factors.Starting from the power distribution of aristocracy politics, the paper points out that the aristocrats with king of Zhou Dynasty as head enjoying power is determined by their birth and social conditions. Then with the power seized by the inferior aristocrats, the breakup of blood ties, and the rise of Scholar class, power is gradually centralized to the monarch alone. Thus bureaucracy politics characterized by centralization comes into being.Power constraint changes consequently with Power distribution. As the power gets centralized, the original supervisory system collapses, and the population becomes surplus, the monarch is ineffectively supervised and constrained by his subjects and masses. The monarch in a centralized country is no longer restricted by any institution or organization. So bureaucracy politics results in an autocratic system.The divergence of power systems leads to the change of political quality of power subject, aristocrats and bureaucrats. It's a shift from loyalty to the country to turning traitor for personal gain; from unselfishness to selfishness; from indifference to fame and wealth to pursuing them.