Theory And Practice Of Villagers' Self-government: The Socialist Political Civilization

Through twenties years, villager's self-government has been a significant political scene in temporary social political development in China. Not only in theory but also in practice, villager's self-government all has been the splendor of building socialistic political civilization. At the same time, because of powerful vitality villager's self-government also has been a kind of important force to promote political civilization development continuously. And it provides a great deal of vital enlightenment for building socialistic political civilization.On the basis of analyzing system, structure, process and functions of villager's self-government , sticking to the combination between theories and practices, this thesis makes a systematic and sophisticated exploration on how villager's self-government to embody socialistic political civilization. This thesis is divided into four parts:First part makes a brief comment on villager's self-government and socialistic political civilization. And it is concerned with the definitions and the other important topics. Such is the foundation of the approach. In addition, the part points out that villager's self-government is the foundational works of building socialistic political civilization, and this is the prerequisite of the research.Second part probes into some modern critical theories of political civilization reflected through villager's self-government. It argues: Villager's self-government is the necessary means for mass villagers to develop in politics; Villager's self-government makes institutional reconstruction on the relationship between our state and rural society; Besides, villager's self-government is also one critical resources of development and change in the theories of Chinese Political science.Third part researches the structures, functions and process of villager's self-government and the interactions between it and building socialistic political civilization in practice. On one hand, villager's self-government is the cardinal embodiment of political democratization in rural society; In addition, villager's self-government riches the channels for villagers to take political participation; On the other hand, villager's self-government propels the breaking-up of rural political structure and the progress of political institutionalization; Moreover, villager's self-government is the vital insurance of rural social stability.Fourth part discusses its powerful vitality and considers that villager's self-government is one key force to promote the development of socialistic political civilization on the basis of its broad influence. Firstly, villager's self-government gives impetus to the reform of community of cities; and it gives birth to a series of "sun-politics" in the other fields. Secondly, villager's self-government propels the changes of political Party organizations in rural basic-level; and it becomes the examples of rural governments' reforms. At last, the part outlines the general achievement of villager's self-government provides the important enlightenments for building socialistic political civilization in the "path-choices", "development-model", and so on.