| Information age witnesses the rapid expansion of internet.The combination between internet technology and democratic politics gives rise to a global development trend of citizens’ internet political participation.Facing the pressure of developing internet democracy from international community,and the practical situation of public opinion demands growth,impeded traditional political participation channels as well as widespread disordered internet political participation during domestic transitional period,promoting citizens,orderly internet political participation has become the most critical issue to the party and the state.Citizen orderly internet political participation,based on internet technology and revolving around shaping interactive relationships between citizens and governments,involves multi-dimensional change such as power relations,values,participation modes,and urgently calls for government’s powerful organization,guidance and participative support.Before reforms implemented,institutions should be first.Therefore,the government should improve the institution supply to boost the realization of citizens’ orderly internet political participation.This study proceeds from the perspective of government’s management,and treats citizens’ orderly internet political participation as a public issue,rather than a pure political behavior process.Adopting institutional analysis methods,explore the functions of government’s institution supply in shaping the order of citizens’ internet political participation,and exploit the institutional factors which influence citizens’ internet political participation.Specifically,guided by institutional equilibrium theory,this study establishes its analytical frame,that is,the connotation and evaluation index of orderly citizens’ internet political participation—identifying the institution demands of orderly citizens’ internet political participation—the institution supply of governments for orderly citizens’ internet political participation—analyzing the institution supply disequilibrium of governments—realizing the institution supply equilibrium of governments.More specifically,this research first discusses what exactly is "order" and its qualitative evaluation index;next identifies institution demands of citizens,orderly internet political participation by employing normative analysis method,institution equilibrium theory and knowledge about citizens’ political participation levels;then explores the disequilibrium where government’s institution supply can’t satisfy the institution demands of citizens’ orderly internet political participation;eventually uses the institutional equilibrium theory,parses the influencing factors which result in the disequilibrium and explores the countermeasures to optimize government’s institution supply.Analyze the connotation and evaluation index of citizens’ orderly internet political participation and aim to realize three concrete targets,including defining the concepts of citizens’ orderly internet political participation,building qualitative evaluation index and describing the realistic state of citizens’ orderly internet political participation in China.To be specific,the first step is to analyze the inner essence and external layering of citizens’ orderly internet political participation and define its implications.The second step is to explore the reasonable threshold and qualitative evaluation index of citizens’ orderly internet political participation according to its internal essences and external layering.The third step is to make a judgement about the qualitative level for Chinese citizens’ orderly internet political participation at the present stage.Citizens’ orderly internet political participation is an organic hierarchy system.The realization of order can’t be merely equal to regulate the disordered participation,but also be reflected as the realization of rights of citizens’ internet political participation.Realization of citizens’ orderly internet political participation implies higher requirements for government’s responsibilities and institution supply.In order to identify the institution demands of citizens’ orderly internet political participation,this research centers on the implication of "order" and employs normative analysis method.By exploring the inherent requirements of "order" for government’s responsibilities,pinpoint the direction and contents of government institution supply and construct the framework of government’s institution supply for citizens’ orderly internet political participation.Two steps are included.Analyze the requirements of the qualitative evaluation index of citizens’ orderly internet political participation for government’s responsibilities and institution supply;and analyze the requirements of external layering of citizens’ orderly internet political participation for government’s responsibilities and institution supply.Based on the analysis of these two aspects,according to the institution classifications of North and Williamson’s,institutional equilibrium theory and levels of citizens’ political participation,this research establishes the framework of institution demands of citizens’ orderly internet political participation which can provide a standard and reference for analyzing the deficiencies and defects of government’s practical institution supply.Analyze the practical institution supply of Chinese government for citizens’ orderly political participation and explore the disequilibrium and corresponding influencing factors of government’s institution supply.With the guidance of institutional equilibrium theory,and taking above institution demands system as reference,this research explores the imbalance between actual government’s institution supply and institution demands of orderly participation.The research finds out that government’s institution supply presents disequilibrium characteristics,including lack of adaptability,efficiency,completeness and system implementation deviation.After that,causes of the disequilibrium are discussed under the guidance of institutional equilibrium theory.This research discovers that government’s gradual mandatory institution supply mode lead to weak intensity and incompleteness in institutions,preference for traditional institutions and concepts leads to the lack of institution innovation,complicated power and interest structure impedes institution supply,high cost and high risk of institution design and implementation as well as deficient knowledge hinders the process of institution supply,and the phenomenon of "free-rider" in local governments leads to insufficient institution supply.The fact that institution supply cannot meet the institution demand produces directly influence on citizens’ orderly internet political participation.In accordance with the reasons and relative knowledge of institutional equilibrium,five countermeasures can be adopted to optimize government’s institution supply:clearly define the basic principles and objectives of government’s institution supply for citizens’ orderly internet political participation,make a combination of gradual mandatory supply mode and radical induced institution supply model,break path dependence of government’s institution supply,accurately position government’s roles and responsibility boundary,and promote comprehensive coordinated reforms of government institution arrangements.Through this research,conclusions are drawn as follows:(1)Citizens’ orderly internet political participation at the present stage is at relatively low level,which urgently needs guidance and regulations from governments;(2)Institution demands of Chinese citizens’orderly internet political participation is a multi-level organic system;(3)The government’s institution supply cannot meet the demands of citizens’ orderly internet political participation in adaptability,efficiency,completeness and execution;(4)Government’s institution supply for citizens’ orderly internet political participation needs the combination of gradual mandatory and radical induced institution supply;(5)Citizens orderly internet political participation needs government’s institution supply and especially its timely and effective institution supply. |
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