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Participatory Democracy Theories Apocalypse To The Chinese Citizens' Political Participation

Posted on:2010-08-02Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W J LiangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2166360278955536Subject:Marxist theory and ideological and political education
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Participatory democracy is the new development of democratic construction of capitalist, rising in the early 1960s. It developed gradually into the mature theory on the basis of Representative democracy. It emphasis on introducing many more direct democratic factors on the basis of macro-representative-democracy to extending citizens' direct participation in national affairs and social organizations to obtain true democracy.At present, Chinese citizens' participation is the periods of social transformation. And Political participation of our citizens has been a significant social transformation in Chinese society, with citizens' participation suitable to socialist market economy and distinctly featured by transformation periods as well being shaped. Democratization is the fundamental trend of Chinese political development. Participatory democracy has something in common with socialist democratic value in terns of the essence of democracy, scope of democracy and ways of realizing democracy. Socialist public ownership is the economic foundation of participatory democracy, Political participation of our citizens is an important guarantee to Socialist public ownership. From the practice of socialist countries, improve the people's democratic ideas and democratic consciousness is a difficult, long-term task and needs the concerted efforts, including a fundamental thing is to firmly grasp the socialist market economy key link in the development of the socialist market economy, can effectively promote change our concepts, so that citizens become more sophisticated sense of democratic participation.The core of the concept of Participatory democracy is the political participation of citizens, and expand orderly citizen political participation, foster a sense of civic self-awareness of political participation, democracy and the rule of China's development trend, especially in the political life of citizens of the grass-roots level, efforts to enhance citizen participation and effective , and the institutionalization of citizen participation is conducive to maintaining social and political harmony and stability, and citizens to participate in public affairs, master and apply knowledge and skills of democracy and, ultimately, to foster democratic practices in training to be a sense of civic rights and duties of modern citizenship, which democracy and the rule of law in China has a great role in promoting.
Keywords/Search Tags:democracy, participatory democracy, citizens' participation, political development
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