Political Legitimacy Of China Communist Party

Every owner of public power makes the effort to seek the legitimacy .The owner and the object of public power is the structural carrier of the legitimacy. The owner realizes its legitimacy through institutional arrangement, that is, the well interaction of informal institution (ideology) and formal institution. In the process of political development, the owner of public power has come through different forms. In modern society, citizens, parties, and public power form the modem politics. Parties fulfill the public power, and the legitimacy is the prerequisite of the parties' political practice. The party who loses the legitimacy will lose its life in the development of history. The essence of political legitimacy of parties is the relations between the parties and masses. The institutional arrangement regulates its realization and features. The natal way of parties often has great influence on its political legitimacy. The political legitimacy of CCP does not identify with political legitimacy of the western parties incompletely, with the common rule but more particularities of the historical development of China. With the analytical tool of "the interaction of informal institution (ideology) and formal institution", this article analyses the political practice (revolution and reign) of CCP, and brings forward my suggestions of the developing path for political legitimacy of CCP, that is, adhering to the interaction of value rationality of socialism (informal institution) and the technical rationality (formal institution).