The Research Of Chinese Policy Agenda-setting

The working on policy process studies tended to be more policy formation stage, ignoring the research of policy agenda setting. How could policy to be put on the agenda of the decision and got the attention of policymakers? How could all kinds of strength promote the establishment of the agenda? This paper takes an empirical study on several significant decisions from1949to1966in China, and probed into the problem of Chinese policy agenda setting, including platform participants, mode and process of China policy agenda setting.Policy agenda setting was a dynamic process. The explanation method of "two sides of the power" and "communities of policy" was the theory foundation of studying. In1949and1966Chinese policy agenda setting process, to democratic centralism under the policy community as interpretation methods, policy "vertical" and "horizontal" two dimensions, decided to community decision mode two features. Chinese policy agenda setting from the platform to simplification diversification, the participants included political leaders and power elite, bureaucracy, the news media, intellectuals and experts, and the masses, the participants involved in different ways, influenced the ability of the agenda is different.According to the participants’number and the role of the community, the Chinese policy agenda setting mode could be divided into collective decision model, internal control mode, the personal control mode. Collective decision model included leadership initiative investigation, pilot and anatomical typical, political leaders spread top-down agenda. Collective decision was collective agreement the result of consensus, once appear mistake, hard to correct. Internal control model was mainly through the system of non-party elite channel, party strict report system, and the internal reference to realize the newspaper. Internal control mode of the issues involved more targeted, but depended largely on the central party committee of senior policymakers’attitudes and opinions. The personal control mode could be divided into two stages, the party consensus through promoting control the agenda and launch a political movement control the agenda to the implementation of the influence, Mao Zedong paid more attention to the problem of related ideology, but his personal leading role was not undemocratic.Between1949and1966, Chinese policy agenda setting faced some problems, mainly showed as a platform for instability and the change of the issues. Among them, the platform was not stable, which was due to severe national movement and discrete system to cause, and the issue of the change was the party increasingly serious differences and conflicts, and through the struggle to unite the wrong way of the use of the results.