The Institutional Status Quo Of Chinese Public Opinion, Countermeasures And Thoughts

By definiting the concepts of supervision by public opinion and the insititution of supervision by public opinion, this article indicates what supervision by public opinion should be and argues that there are various subjects and specific behaviors in supervision by public opinion. Especially supervision by public opinion is different from propaganda. We should understand Chinese behaviors of supervision by public opinion from the subjects, objects and the ways of movements. In this eye the article analyzes the socialism provides extensive subjects in supervision by public opinion. But since members of Chinese society lack of self-organization, the real subjects of supervision by public opinion was replaced by many departments of government and the Communist Party. In this replacement, there exists many problems and blind points in Chinese supervision by public opinion display: the technology in supervision' s forms have low-grade, the rights of modern media and the ranges of mass media' s action need to permit. There are not clear operation rights and simple operation forms. Supervision to political system and administrative power is absent. The relation of supervision' s subjects and objects is confused. There' re few law of supervision, the organization on supervision. Supervision' s morality is very at will. It' s difficulty transferring supervision by public opinion to supervision power. There' re also many error trends in supervision by public opinion: Chinese supervision by public opinion stress on the whole society. We always confuse the category of making public opinion, controlling public opinion and supervision by public opinion. We also emphasize on public opinion' s intention and neglect public opinion' s supervision. The institution on supervision by public opinion belongs to political system and become the department of government. In one hand the mass media exceed the limit of supervision' s power. On the other hand, Supervision by public opinion only concentrate . So we must have countermeasure to these problems: Supervision by public opinion is an important political participation for citizen. It is one way for citizen to restrain the government. It is an important portion of socialism political civilization. So we would construct various supervision by individuals or social groups using various forms. We must make a legal system, independent , moralizing, democratic circumstance for supervision by public opinion.