Analysis On The Effectiveness Of China 's Popularization Of Law And The Countermeasures

Began in 1986 the law popularization movement in China has lasted about thirty years.The launch of law popularization movement is initially pushed by the government,tempting to enhance the concept of law among the public through institutionalized and regular legal publicity and education; enable the public to know and understand the law and develop the habit of law-abiding and taking actions according to the law;improve social order;and finally serves the goal of social stability and lasting political stability.promote social improvement, service to the society stability and national long period of stability.With the implementation and development of law popularization movement,the public have a more or less master of legal knowledge, have a knowledge of the importance of law, words such as “law”,”rule of law” obtain unprecedented power in our country. However, if evaluate the law popularization movement by the goal that the government is attempting to achieve,we can come to conclusion that this movement is far from expected performance.Under the new situation of building a socialist country under the rule of law, the goal of law popularization movement must be further developed and perfected. In the new period the goal of law popularization movement should includes:1.members of the society with good compliance with the public behavior habits, consciously compliance with the law and behaviors according to the law;2.members of the society with a firm belief in law.However,will the the previous thinking and mode of operation be lasted,it is difficult to meet the requirements of the law popularization movement in the new period.How to convert the previous ideas and means to achieve the goal of this new period is just the significance of this paper.The context of this paper is divided into three parts: the first part briefly reviewes the historical development of the law popularization movement in China,analyses the performance of this movement in recent thirty years by the standard of desired goal of law popularization movement, and by the typical case in the judicial and law enforcement activities this paper comes to the conclusion that it can be better; the second part analyzes the reasons for the bad performance from the perspective of movement itself such as ideas, organization and operation mode of this movement,and from the perspective of legislation, law enforcement and judicial status and historical tradition and so on; the third part puts out a new idea of law popularization based on analysis of former two chapter: law popularization should be divided into popularization of two kinds of law------explicit and implicit law,in addition to the popularization of explicit law,the government should pay more attention to the popularization of implicit law, with two kinds of popularization united to finally achieve the the higher goal of develop the belief of law among the public.