Thoughts On The Inner-party Democracy Of The Western European Parties

The Western European Parties, as the earlier appearing Democratic Corporationworldwide, has formed the basic system of the inner-party democracy that onlybelongs to the Western European Parties during the continuously exploring andinnovating for meeting the political demands and the challenges of the age.Summarizing and learning the experiences and lessons gained from the process of theinner-party democracy development could help us improve the institutional constructand integral development of the inner-party democracy, and it will bring aboutprofound and significant effects to the steadiness of the ruling status, the improvementof the governing capacity and the relation between the party and the masses. This paperanalyzes and discusses the topic from following four aspects:In the first part, it relates and analyzes the development history of the inner-partydemocracy of the Western European Parties. The stages of development of the WesternEuropean Parties have been mainly taken as the guidance, which helps me tosummarize and analyze the expression characteristics and the basic modes of eachstage of development. In the second part, it elaborates the influencing factors thatpromote the inner-party democracy model restructuring in terms of the own factor andobjective factor. The social environment is the seminary that cultivates and developsthe inner-party democracy, while the party organization is the foundation determines itsfinal destination. In the third part, it evaluates the development of the inner-partydemocracy of the Western European Parties, including its advantages and disadvantage.The balance and the rivalry have been regarded as the advantages of the basic systemof the inner-party democracy and gradually become the spirits and basic structures ofthe democratic system within the party. With the implement and development of themulti-party system and general election system, most of the Western European Partieshave been driven to pay more attention on its own sake of the election rather than thereal meaning by the motivation of “the best election results”, which has caused thealienation between the party and the people, also the decline of its political influence.In the last part, following the above, which can be taken as the enlightenment to thedevelopment of inner-party democracy the Chinese Communist Party. In a contrastingperspective, the Chinese Communist has built its own basic pattern and development direction of the inner-party democracy guided by the particular ideology, butsome structural handicaps and institutional barriers still exist. Therefore, summarizingand learning the experiences and lessons gained from the process of the inner-partydemocracy development could help us improve the institutional construct and integraldevelopment of the inner-party democracy, and it will bring about profound andsignificant effects to the steadiness of the ruling status, the improvement of thegoverning capacity and the relation between the party and the masses.