The Changes Of The Social Interest Structure Of Contemporary China And The Political Development Of China

The interest structure is the deep structure of the social system and the political system. It constitutes the internal motive force of the movement of the society and the politics. As the intermediary between the political life and the social life, especially as the intermediary between the political life and the economic life, the greatest character of it is that it has a changeable function. Its change has a great influence on the political structure and the political movement mechanism. The interest movement is the essential motive force of the political development. And since Reform and Opening, the most striking and kernel change among the changes of the social structure is the change of the social interest structure. It will bring about a far -reaching influence on the political development of China. But, only through the change of the present political structure can the influence be realized. Therefore, the state of the social and political structure has a decisive effect on the political developmentIn fact, China gained its political development just by adjusting these contradictions continually.On the basis of expounding the changes of the social interest structure in contemporary China, this thesis will analyze the influence of them on the political development of China from three aspects. Namely, the political authority structure, the political participant and the political structure differentiation. Then, it will analyze how the social and political structure deal with these changes. The author will mainly probe into its attitude towards the interest group, and make a grander deduction on the basis of it.The following is a more specific exposition: the changes of Chinese social interest structure caused a significant change of the political authority structure. As for thepolitical participant, the changes of the social interest structure produced more main bodies of political participant, and made the political participant expanded. To express their willing and information exactly, promptly and effectively, more bodies and levels of interest require sufficient, special, differential means of interest expression. This requires an institutional tie between the social and political system and the interest demand or object. Thus, the changes of the social interest structure finally put forward a structural differentiation to the mingled structure of the political participant. The interest group is sure to appear when the market economy develops to a certain stage. This is a regular phenomenon. Compared with the other interest expression means, the interest group is the most effective ones. When some political institutions and procedures become the means to express and strive for interest satisfaction, the people' s interest expressions will constitute the direct driving force of the political change. Here, the change of the political system depends on by the accomplishment of the function of the interest expression. In the operation sense, democracy is the restriction of the people to the government. The restriction is, to the essence, the people' s expression of some interest to the government. The changes of Chinese social interest structure will influence the relationship of the power of the social and political structure through its influence on the development of democracy. But, the special social and political structure of China can' t admit the legitimate existence of the interest group, which means it can' t comply with the pluralism of the social interest and realize the pluralism in politics. So, it will give full play to its present structure and system of the political participant. Then, in the political development, China will have its own model.According to the above trains of thought, this thesis will spread out to discuss the questions in three parts.The first part expounds the changes of Chinese social interest structure since Reform and Opening. First, it states the fundamental character of Chinese social interest structure from 1949 to 1979, as well as the th...