The Current Status Of Chinese Rural Grassroots Democracy Problems And Countermeasures

In1987, the law of the People’s Republic of villagers committees "officialpromulg-ation of the trial, made clear the villagers committee is to realize" selfmanagement, selfeducation, self service "as the ultimate goal," democratic elections, democraticmanagement and democratic decision-making, democratic supervision "for the subs-tantial contents of the grass-roots autonomous organization of the people. Thus, ruralgrassroots masses autonomy with definite system connotation, rural democraticconstrruction of grassroots have legal protection. Since then, China’s rural democraticconstruction of grass-roots deep into the country. On October,, the standing committeeof the National People’s Congress voted through the modification of the law of thePeople’s Republic of villagers committees ", and formally promulgated. Modification ofthe villagers committees on regulating the procedures, perfect the system, mainly fromthe villagers’ committee members of the election and recall procedures, democraticdeliberation and system, democratic management and democrocratic supervision systemfor further refinement perfect, highlighted the law by The Times, scientific andoperability. Socialist China needs to develop democracy, millions of Chinese farmersneed to democracy. Socialist democracy is an integrant part of the socialist society, anddemocracy is not the division of the relationship,visible, the development of China’srural grassroots democracy construction of socialistmodemization is very important.This paper uses the field investigation method, choose enshi prefecture ai village asa case study to field investigations. This article is not of China’s rural democraticconstruction of grass-roots doing a lot of theory expounded review and value, but willfocus on rural grassroots democracy on the current situation of the construction ofspecific description, related problems and reasons, perfect the countermeasures to probeon top. At the same time, this article make full use of Carl Cohen’s democratic theory onChina’s rural democratic construction of grassroots, this is not to test the western theory,but from the point of view of political philosophy to penetrate Chinese rural democraticconstruction of grass-roots appeared in the process of problems, from on macroscopiclooking for the development of rural grassroots democracy way out. This paper mainlycontent as follows:First, introduces the origin of topics and research significance, the research presentsituation and subject research trend, mainly uses the method of study. This paper mainlylies in the origin of academic underdeveloped areas, the rural democratic construction ofgrass-roots lack enough attention, so the author will research perspective to this area;This paper mainly lies in the research significance of the case of the construction ofrural grassroots democracy point, undeveloped regions and the entire China’s ruraldemocratic construction of grass-roots provide perfect countermeasures andsugges-tions; This paper argues that, whether domestic or foreign academic circles, of China’srural grassroots democracy of the research of the theory of bent on the inspection andframe, ignoring the rural political solutions and deep thought circles should pay greatattention to the theory and practice of the interpretationcount ermeasures studycomprehensive balance. At the same time is considered in this paper, the construction ofrural grassroots democracy the successful experience of how to expand to top, deliberative democracy theories of democracy at the grass-roots level of China’s ruralconstruction theory and practice to enrich and perfect the role will be in the practice ofthe two major studies in the future trend.The Second, ai village of enshi to the status quo of the development of democracyat the grass-roots level made specific description. This paper at first introduced the basicsituation of the case point, content mainly includes geographical location andpopulation situation, natural and ecological environment, social and human environment,mainly subsistence mode; Secondly introduces to the recent ai village "two committees"of the specific conditions of the election; At last, the paper introduces the ai village indemocratic management and democratic decisionmaking basic present situation, thispaper introduces the ai village villagers’ autonomy to the source of the articles of thespecific conditions of the village and the public.The third, based on the investigation to point out to ai village of grassrootsdemoc-racy development appeared in the process of main problems of the problems andanalyzes the reasons. Think the village in the process of the development of democracyat the grass-roots level still exist in the process of village committee elections the partypolitical apathy, weak village strong type of the relationship between party andgovernment supervision, institutional exist for a long time and the lack of institutionalsupervision and weakness, villagers’ autonomy for the articles, lead problems. Thefactors contributing to these problems is: traditional historical and cultural factors;Economic development factors; The geographical factors; The state system factors; Thevillagers individual quality factor; Education level factors; Legal factor; Citizenconsciousness factors.The fourth, through his own thinking on the development of rural grassrootsdemocracy are given a series of improvement Suggestions. This paper argues that byimproving the rural democratic construction of grassroots material guarantee level;Improve the rural democratic construction of grass-roots legal safeguard level; Improvethe rural population by the whole education level; Strengthen rural community citizenconsciousness cultivation, can be very good at solving the case and the region thecountryside basic democracy development, promoting rural democratic construction ofgrass-roots ceaselessly.The fifth, listed the democratic development of the view and puts forward some ofChina’s rural development prospects of democracy at the grass-roots level. Thinkfarmers need to democracy, the rural social development needs of democracy, thesocialist modernization called democracy. The development of democracy and progressis people oriented, the trend of The Times, we must of China’s rural development ofdemocracy at the grass-roots level of cautious optimism.