Democratic Centralism: Study On Consensus Forming Mechanism Of Public Governance

Through three decades of reform and opening up, the public governance in China has made unprecedented achievement, the government system continued to improve, a wide range of governance body pattern was being formed. Especially since the 17th Chinese Communist Party Congress, the social governance structure consists of the Party leadership, government responsibility, social cooperation, and public participation is gradually formed. That put the formation of public governance consensus to higher requirements. Consensus of public governance, which causing great concern in society, has risen to a new level.This paper consists of five parts. The first part describes the background, significance and related literature review.The second chapter focuses on the realistic basis of public governance - binding consensus which caters to the integrity characteristics of China's public governance. Because of the consensus based traditional authority and negotiation can not adapt to social development, so they are failure and hinder the development of society. As a native theory, Democratic Centralism, of course, should be shoulder the responsibility, and become public governance consensus forming mechanism of localization choice.The third part makes a deep analysis on the basis of democratic centralism. It includes new explanations of Mao's democratic centralism, the fundamental mission of democratic centralism and the decision-making base of democratic centralism and republican essence of democratic centralism. To achieve consensus is the basic mission of Democratic Centralism. Its decision-making is based on the mass line, namely "from the masses, to the masses." As a consensus forming mechanism, democratic centralism have, "public, co-governance, peace" feature of republicanism.The fourth part builds a consensus forming mechanism of democratic centralism. Analyzing Mao's decision-making model and its failures in practice, we can conclude that Mao's Democratic Centralism is the original form of consensus formation. Through decomposing the mass line, modifying and applying democratic centralism, we can reconstruct a double-deck democratic centralism consensus forming mechanism.The last chapter specifies a case to analysis the consensus forming mechanism, and the enlightenment from it.