About The Maintenance And Consolidation Of Reign Legitimacy Of The Chinese Communist Party In The New Century

Modern society is the society of party politics, in which legitimacy is the value standard when the party politics make judgment accordingly. At present, the Communist Party of China also faces the problem of safeguarding and consolidating legitimacy of its reign legitimacy in the new period. This thesis insists on regarding Marxist materialist conception of history and significant thought of Three Represents' as its guidance, draws the research approaches from western legitimacy theory, examines the legitimacy question of the CCP closely from the visual angle of the legitimacy theory, and finally probes into the continuous maintenance and consolidation of the reign legitimacy of the CCP in the new period.As a matter of fact, the major thought of the western political philosophy history is just the legitimacy question of politics. Having been developed for several hundreds years, the legitimacy theory now basically matures and has formed a complete theoretical system, which mainly includes legitimacy concept, legitimacy foundation, legitimacy crisis, and legitimacy maintenance. It can be said that western legitimacy theories have great limitation to social historical development, social structure, and social system, but it does not influence their theoretical contributions to the political system. A reference to the theory research approach of western legitimacy, has both theoretical and practical value in studying the problem of reign legitimacy of the CCP at present.The reign status of CCP is the choice of history and the choice of people. At the same time, the CCP pays great attention to proceed from concrete reality in different periods of historical development, emphasizes maintaining and consolidating its reign legitimacy in economic performance, institutional improvements, ideology, moral quality, etc. The reign legitimacy of the CCP is a course of constant alteration and extension; with the development of the time, the resources of legitimacy should be constantly renewed, too. The problems encountered in maintaining and consolidating its reign legitimacy should be dealt with developmental ways, and its own reignlegitimacy shall be strengthened during the course of development.The reign Legitimacy of the CCP is in constant enhancement in the new century. That is to say, it faces new challenges and new problems. At the same time, the crisis of the reign legitimacy that the CCP faces is the exhibition of the contradictions among the people; it is the contradiction expressed by the internal interests of the people, it is also the contradiction during developing. It is quite necessary and important to maintain and consolidate the reign legitimacy of the CCP constantly in the new century.Maintaining and consolidating the reign legitimacy of the CCP in the new century, ought to insist on regarding significant thoughts of Three Represents' as its guidance. On the premise of adhering to the Four Cardinal Principles, it sticks to the cardinal principle of "building a party for the interests of people, assuming power for people." We must strengthen the self-building of the Party to maintain and consolidate the reign legitimacy of the Party, keep the advance of the Party; we must intensify reign consciousness, strengthen the construction of reign ability conscientiously;we must adhere to the outlook of scientific development and advance the progressing in an all-round way of the Chinese society; we must strengthen the class basis of the Party and amplify mass foundations of the Party constantly; we must advance the construction of socialistic political civilizations continuously; we must maintain the social equalities and justice, protect the disadvantaged groups, avoiding resulting in the vested interest group.