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Elite Action In The Course Of Grass-Roots Social Democratization

Posted on:2015-08-03Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W F ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2296330467476639Subject:Administrative Management
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Orderly, effectively and timely boost to China’s political democratization process, which is the fundamental way to propel the national governance system and management ability of modern style, also is the internal requirement to build service government, strengthen political legitimacy. Western scholars focus on national democratization path research, and the overall level of democratization is difficult to completely, effectively applied to our national democracy system development. It is necessary to take great pains to analysis and research a propel democratization way to fit in our national conditions.The practice of Democratic Talkfest system of Wenling city, in Zhejiang province, shows that Grassroots deliberative democracy is a practicable path for our national political democratization. To a great extent, it can promote the realization of the interests of the wider public, enhance participation consciousness and ability of citizens, promote the formation of the pattern of public affairs governance, and strengthen the identity of the citizens of the government. At the same time, in pluralism, equality, consultation as the main characteristic of the practice of deliberative democracy system, members of society of political cognition, skills, experience and other aspects have significant differences, the impact on the public decision-making appear bigger differences.The grass-roots elites are depending on their own social value to produce remarkable influence. During the Democratic Talkfest system, power of power elites, economic elites, professional elites and other elites appear a certain funnel type characteristic. These various powers have different behavioral expressions. The action of social elites have an influence on deliberative democracy system that mainly include increasing of the effectiveness of the consultation process, weakening the plural equality, and accelerating the process of political socialization of the grass-roots society. We can explain the embed ability of social elite action at the grass-roots level from the perspectives of social structure theory of "collective unconsciousness", historical institutionalism theory Angle of view of path dependence, elite circulation theory Angle of view of social stability mechanism.From the elite democracy to promote to the masses deliberative democracy is the inevitable requirements of our national grassroots deliberative democracy development, is also the overall direction of grassroots social and political democratization in China. Therefore, we can implement it from the following five aspects:regulating action power boundary of social elite; enhancing individual’s consciousness and capability of democracy, and public spirit; advancing political participation opportunity further equalization; strengthening the interactivity of consultative decision-making elite and mass; ensuring the effective implementation of negotiation decision scheme.
Keywords/Search Tags:Democratization, Deliberative Democracy, Elite Politics, Grass-roots Elites, Wenling Democratic Talkfest
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