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A Study On The Rules Of Procedure Of The People's Congress Standing Committee Of Municipal Level

Posted on:2017-08-24Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:P YanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2336330512459155Subject:Public Administration
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Rules of procedure are a kind of basic norms that ensure democratic discussion and it can improve effectively operation and development of democratic politics on the basis of the guaranteed fairness and efficiency.As a kind of political technique,rules of procedure of western parliament,especially “Robert Rules of Procedure" can be used moderately for reference,thus promoting western outstanding achievements of political civilization to be applied in China.Presently the major problems of the Rules of Procedure in our prefecture-level NPC and its standing committee are as follows: provision of conference time system is too general,the time for conference is not fixed,the meeting duration keeps changing;strength and breadth of the open principle is not enough,speeches of the NPC standing committee are exposed within the committee rather than to the society,so the public has no way to know how the NPC standing committee exercises its power;the voice mechanism lacks security of debate rules,free speech is common but effective debate is very little among the NPC standing committee;the vote principle is far from scientific and perfect,the application of methods of voting is not clear,the vote quorum is uncertain and the calculating standard is not scientific enough.The deep-seated reasons causing these problems mainly include: there is a lack of the element of democratic discussion in Chinese traditional culture.Hierarchy is deeply ingrained and debate is always not respected;the rule consciousness of local standing committee of the People's Congress and the standing committee groups is week.The discussion culture,discussion experience and knowledge structure differ greatly among the standing committee groups,which causes low effectiveness of the rules of procedure;Local democratic politics has not yet been developed,while the development degree of rules of procedure is closely related to the development degree of democratic politics and the two have a mutual promotion relationship.Aimed at those problems and reasons,we think we should operate democratic techniques in order to improve rules of procedure of our prefecture-level NPC and its standing committee.We should make the rules of procedure more practicable by refining and bettering conference duration system,open system,speech mechanism and vote mechanism.What's more,we should consider from the level of value,try to make the meeting participants respect rules of procedure more and help foster a goodhabit of democracy.As a result,starting with rules of procedure,we can better improve prefecture-level NPC standing committee system and enhance the development of local democracy.
Keywords/Search Tags:Rules of procedure, Robert rules of procedure, Process value, Prefecture-level NPC standing committee
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