The Research On The Political Legitimacy Of The Contemporary China

Political legitimacy is one of concepts of modern political science.It is an important issue which each government has to face in each period.A country’s political legitimacy is directly related to national political stability and development.Under the background of the reform and opening-up policy and social transformation of China,actively promoting the modernization of national government system and management ability,construction of harmonious socialist society in an all-round way is very crucial to the country’s modernizing construction in the21century.Solve the problem of political legitimacy is the prerequisite of the efficient governance and political stability,but also is the inevitable requirement of building a harmonious socialist society.This research has the theoretical significance and practical significance to the building socialism with Chinese characteristics and a harmonious society. This study based on Chinese and western political legitimacy theory to conduct a comprehensive system of carding and comprehensive comparative analysis,to gain a in-depth and comprehensive understanding and awareness of the political legitimacy.On this basis,we analysis the establishment, maintenance and development of political legitimacy since the establishment of China and reform and opening-up,analysis the change of people’s psychological and intellectual changed of the times which has an influence in the political legitimacy of contemporary China,Clearly points out the challenges faced by the contemporary Chinese political legitimacy.Based on the reality of China’s national conditions put forward the effective path about taking positive countermeasures,protecting the legitimacy of stock,consolidating and strengthening the political legitimacy.This research has mainly carried on the comprehensive literature research for the Chinese and western political legitimacy theory, lay a solid foundation of the political legitimacy,and investigate the Chinese political legitimacy’s historical evolution process in a historical perspective.this paper’s main innovation points is put forward and first foray the mission which is breaking the legitimacy discourse system of western practice patterns for electoraldemocracy,and construct the political legitimacy theory systembased on the political practice with Chinese characteristics.Thesecond is the degree of political legitimacy is associated with degreeof political stability directly, put forward the concept of politicalstability,and reference to seismic intensity level to compile a indexsystem which can reflect the degree of a country’s political stability.