The Research On Social Security System In The View Of Political Legitimacy

Social security system is involved in a multi-disciplinary certain areas of research which has important theoretical value and practical significance. The thesis studies based on Max Weber’s viewpoint on political legitimacy and Habermas’s perspective for complement as analytical framework. First of all, the thesis introduces the basic concept of political legitimacy and analyzes the principle of political legitimacy. Secondly, the text chooses the research object as social security system key historical events:1601Elizabeth Poor Law, Germany social insurance law in the1880s, the boom and reform of welfare state After World War Ⅱ. By analyzing the reason of political legitimacy crisis, explore the social security as a major government public function in the maintenance of government legitimacy to the government’s role. The Paper Discuss several key points in the history of the development of social security, social security system’s establishment and improvement need the economic base provided by the Social Productive Forces Increased, it also subject to the impact of the change in the mode of industrialization and public functions. The social security system originated in Europe, industrialization has brought not only the rapid development of productive forces, and led the transformation of the entire social structure and values. The legitimacy Intension is to instill the rule performance and ideology to maintain the power structure system, this maintenance mode also changes with the development of industrialization and capitalist system, from the religious theocracy to a secular society. Therefore, the Government fulfill its public function to mitigate the risks posed by the industrialization of society people to protect the right to existence for them have become an indispensable part of the government’s legitimacy resources. Social Security can not only reduce social conflicts and conflicts behind it reflect the values of the maintenance of the ideological legitimacy of government labor insurance.Social insurance as a core project of the social security system, the reason which was not built in a highest level of economic development of Germany in the first place is directly on the political reason was the intensification of class contradictions in Germany and the workers’ movement to fight in the academic community has a premature conclusion. The paper presents a thorough study on this basis from the perspective of legitimacy consider that Germany has taken a great-leap-forward development industrialization path different from the United Kingdom and is lagging behind in the political modernization has led to the crisis of political legitimacy, social policy is to protect workers to the Government to expand and enhance their own public functions to expand the legitimacy of an important part of the resource. Social security to maintain the legitimacy of the government not only economic security but also by the values, and this is particularly evident in the socialist countries. The fifth chapter takes the People’s Republic of China labor insurance for example; the system design of labor insurance relative to the level of economic development in that time is ahead from the institution perspective. Socialist ideology played an important impact at the same time, fairness and the Freemasons significant labor insurance system is a reflection of the socialist ideology. Finally, the essay points out the main conclusion of the research and thinks about the functional of the legitimacy for social security system. The thesis believe that the social security system is indispensable to maintain political order for modern society functions, but the level of social security is too high would cause too much of the legitimacy of the government’s predicament and the aspirations of the citizens of the political system.