Analysis Of The Supervision By Public Opinion In Modern China

With the gradual development of politics, comparatively complete politicalsupervision system has been set up basically in contemporary China. As importantone of it, Supervision by public opinion is regarded as the fourth power afterLegislative and Judicial and Executive. In modern society, with the rapid developmentof masses media, the influence of public opinion is being strengthened constantly andthe supervision by public opinion is paid more attention to by people day by day.Supervision by public opinion play a positive and important role to realize thesupervision authority of people and improve the political development and keeppolitical steady, but there still existed some problems in it. So study the reality andpractice of contemporary Chinese supervision by public opinion and improve theability and level of supervision by public opinion will benefit for perfecting thesocialist supervision system and socialist democracy and legal system of our country.The supervision by public opinion referred to in this text is that people expresstheir views and form the public opinions to criticize and suggest the country andpolitical parties and civil servants'behaviors on public affairs through such massmedia as the broadcast , movie & TV , network , newspapers and periodicals,magazine ,etc. It evolves with the production of western modern newspaper in the16th and 17th century and has gone through a long historical course to develop intoimportant power and supervision gradually.In restraining the power and supervising politics, the supervision by publicopinion plays a supervision function that other organizations can't offer, which ismainly reflected in several following respects: First, the supervision by public opinioncontributes to perfecting the supervision system. Some defects and deficiencies existyet in the contemporary China's political supervision system, but that the function ofsupervision by public opinion was not full played is one of the importantdisappearances of the current supervision system of our country. Fully playing thefunction of supervision by public opinion will contributes to greatly reduce decisionfaults and corruptions and make the operation of the political system more effective.Second, the supervision by public opinion contributes to promoting executivedecision more democratic and scientific. While carrying on the executive decision,administrative leaders in every level can fully understand the citizen's wills anddemands directly and effectively through the mass media, get to know citizens'satisfaction with the government, obtain prompt but overall feedback messages. Andsuch decisions could really reflect democratization and scientific of administrationprocess. Third, the supervision by public opinion contributes to guaranteeing thecorrect execution of policies and decrees. Pressures of public opinion can forceleading departments effectively stop behaviors of breaking laws and violatingdiscipline and avoid neglecting duty , malfeasance and dilatory phenomenon andsupervise administrative execution work advance according to the track booked.Fourth, the supervision by public opinion by masses' media can take the obligation tomeet the right of being in know of public information, make people aware ofgovernment's decision-making process, make people's wills and demands reflected ingovernment policies, and enable the public to elect the government member they trustand effectively supervise them too. So, the supervision by public opinion has thesignification for ensuring the realization of citizen's right of being in know. Because of the transient of development of supervision by public opinion ofChina, There exist some problems in several respects mainly as following: First,blocking of the channel for supervision by public opinion. Some important system ofsupervision by public opinion is not efficient, even is reducing and shrinking to someextent, and some non-normal channels are still relatively active. Second, dynamics ofsupervision by public opinion is still not enough. It displays to be insufficient atquantity and low level targets and narrow range. Third, supervision by public opinioncan not precisely hold yardsticks. Fourth, the citizen participation in supervising bypublic opinion is incompletely abundantly. In contemporary Chinese, citizen politicsparticipation development's degree is not too high, citizens'consciousness andabilities participating and discuss political affairs through mass media is not active.There are a lot of reasons for producing these questions, which includes the followingseveral respect mainly: First is restriction of laws. The supervision by public opinionlacks special legal norms to support at present. Second is administrative interference.In order to safeguard one's own achievements and safeguard their interests, someoffices and staff members of the Party and government regard the supervision bypublic opinion as a kind of threat and intervene it willfully. Third is obstacle ofthoughts. One is to think the supervision by public opinion as unfavorable to keeppolitical stable, the other is to think that it doesn't accord with the policy that "positivepropaganda is a main fact ". The supervision by public opinion is an important supervision form of moderndemocracy and way to promote the construction of socialist democratic politics. If thesupervision by public opinion is done well, the paces of democratic politicsconstruction of our country will be accelerated effectively. So, the supervision bypublic opinion of our country must be improved and strengthened at present. To...