From "Social Mobilization" To "Stabilization Of Politics"

The letter and visit system is a product of the mass line with Chinese characteristics.In different historical stages,the state has given different meaning to it.It has played an important role in integrating social resources,conveying people's demands,and coordinating conflicts.It was once an important measure for implementing the mass line.With the transformation of the logic of social governance in our country,the gradual advancement of the construction of legalization,the backlog of social contradictions,and the rising awareness of the people's rights,the existing petition system has not been able to fully play its role,and the corresponding institutional reforms have become an inevitable trend.The important issues of concern to all walks of life.Faced with the current situation in the field of news dissemination on paying attention to the petition system,this paper adopts a framework analysis theory and adopts the relevant reports on the establishment of the People's Daily petition system from the perspective of macro,medium,and micro-level analysis to view the official media coverage.The evolution of the petition letters and visits system demonstrated the change from the “class” to the “conflict” to the “harmonious and stable” discourse in the subject of letters and visits reports.Through statistics on letters and visits,it is found that the theme of “the masses” runs through letters and visits,but the subjects of “citizens” have begun to enter the field of view of the report.This is in line with the functional orientation of the petition system from "social mobilization" to "conflict defuse" to today's "maintaining stability",reflecting the awakening of "citizen" consciousness.At the same time,the speeches and instructions of the political elite accounted for a significant percentage in letters and reports,which is consistent with the systematic evolution of letters and visits.The personal charisma of the political elite played an essential role in advancing the start-up of the petition work.However,after the establishment of the petition bureaucracy system,the petition work achieved its own institutionalization.Correspondingly,the posture of the communicator who transformed the political elite into the letter and visit policy was presented in the letters and reports.Grassroots letters and visits agencies are the result of the systematization of letters and visits.They also gather many contradictions in the work of letters and visits.The emphasis on "primary-level governance" in the letters and visits report reflects the rational return of the current visits and visits,the reporting of letters and visits,and the changes in the logic of state management.Stay in sync.In addition,the “People's Daily” report on petitions focuses on the typical shaping of individual regions and individuals in the petition work.The emphasis on the typical related traits is consistent with the emphasis on petition work during different periods.As an important way of realizing the mass line,the letter and visit system serves as an important function of the “bridge” and “tie”.However,with the rise of the letter visit system from the periphery to the political level of maintaining stability,the work of letters and visits has become the path of the masses and the maintenance of democratic rights.At the same time as expressing more accessible channels,cross-level visits,visits to Beijing,collective petitions,and even “profit-making petitions” reflect the numerous difficulties and reforms in the implementation of the letters and visits system.It is even more important to further understand the multiple nature of the letter visit system since its establishment and the orientation of letters and visits in different periods.It is particularly important to rationally examine the petition system and the characteristics and logic of the country's macropolitical changes.