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The Research On The Relationship Of The Development Of Civil Society And Political Participation

Posted on:2008-08-23Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L SuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2166360242469180Subject:Administrative Management
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The thorough reform has caused a series of transformations, including many aspects, such as economy, politics, law and cultural environment, etc. These changes created foundation and good system environment for the development of Chinese civil society. In the long-range view, civil society plays an important role in the process of political participation. The level of development of civil society is directly related to the breadth and depth of political participation and it is an important criterion to measure a country's level of democracy. However, civil society will also have a negative effect to political participation because of its own immature or imperfect in the development of civil society. So this paper focuses on the function of civil society in the process of political participation and construction of civil society with the Chinese characteristic, the mature and the rationality.Foreword: It introduced the relevant research results about civil society and political participation. And it also introduced the purpose, the significance, the method of this research and some related questions which must be solved.The first part: This part analyzed the different translation about civil society and its rich and ever-changing connotation. It defined the concept of civil society and political participation which be used by the paper and analyzed the factors which influenced political participation.The second part: This part pointed the important function of civil society in the process of political participation, including five aspects: supervise power, protect rights; protect the diverse interests demand; develop citizen consciousness, strengthen theirs ability of political participation; breed rational thinking, promote the orderly development of political participation; acquire support and impetus of government, promote the deep-rooted development of political participation. The third part: This part thought the development of civil society is a process from immature to mature. So in certain specific conditions, civil society will have a negative effect on political participation, including five reasons: conflict of pluralist interests; "special privileges" tendency of some interest groups; indivisible relationship between civil society and country; fund predicament of civil society organizations; some other special circumstances, etc.The fourth part: This part pointed there are many influence factors in the process of civil society, and the most important factor is a role of country. Civil society may have a positive effect to political participation under the support and impetus of the government. The paper analyzed the different development process of civil society between China and the west, pointed some problems the development of civil society faced now and theirs countermeasures, in the end proposed route choice about construction of the mature civil society with Chinese characteristic.Conclusion: Fundamentally speaking, civil society is advantageous for the development of democratic politics and it is impetus in the process of political participation. But it is noticed that civil society may influence or proved an obstacle in the process of political participation in certain stage. The country is an essential factor for civil society to develop and make itself perfect, but not the relationship of Zero-sum game. At last the paper pointed construction of civil society must be unified with our country's actual situation, but not imitate simply. And it proposed new ideas to promote the continuous and orderly development of political participation.
Keywords/Search Tags:Civil society, Political participation, Influence, Chinese characteristic, Mature, Route
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