On Present Chinese Special Economic Interest Groups' Political Participation

At present,China is experiencing a critical period of transition from the traditional society to a modern society, with the division and restructuring of social interest and the development of the political democratization and the rule-by -law,all of which have provided an objective basis for the social and political possibilities for the special economic interest groups,the existence of the phenomenon of special economic interest groups is an undeniable fact.Special economic interest groups often existed in a number of large monopolistic enterprises,such as China Telecom,China National Petroleum,China Petrochemical,China's electric power and so on.In recent years,these monopolistic enterprises began to participate the political process and to exert their influence to government decision-making by taking advantage of monopoly status and privileges and was moving from economic subject to political subject,showing obviously tendency of political participation.The special economic interest groups' political participation refers to they participate the political process and exert their influence to government decision-making, legislation and judicature to obtain their special interest through organzational way.As a result,their political participation imposed a mixed outcome.On the one hand,it was beneficial to realize the institutional originality, scientification and democratization of decision-making, interest articulation and social stability,on the other hand, it would undermine fairness and justice,influence government policy and restrict the deepening of reform and exacerbate the disparity between the rich and the poor.So a series of measures shuold be adopted to prevent special economic interest groups illegal political participation,and pave the way for the realization of a harmonious society.This paper can be devided into five chapters.Chapter 1 discusses the basic connotation of the special economic interest groups' political participation,analyzing the concept and the types and the characteristics and the formation of the special economic interest groups and the meaning of the special economic interest groups' political participation.Chapter 2 introduces the basic theories of interest groups' political participation,mainly including their resources and motivations,contents and manners.Chapter 3 describes the characteristics of the special economic interest groups' political participation by several cases from distributional political participation and coercive political participation.Chapter 4 analyzes the positive roles and negative influences of the special economic interest groups' political participation by the dichotomy of Marxism.Chapter 5 puts forward a series of stretegies to cope with the special economic interest groups' political participation from two angles of policy-regulation and institutional construction.The conclusion briefly points out this article' s innovations and flaws.