Research On Chinese Folk Think Tank From The Perspective Of State And Social Relations

In the last dozen years, Chinese civil think tanks which offers advice and suggestions to the country and society’s fundamental policy has made g great progress. It made some contributions to the reform and development of this country. But in fact, compared with foreign countries, whether in quantity or influence, civil think tank in our country is infinitesimal. The academic circles also will focus more on the official and semi-official think tanks, Study on the civil think tanks deficiency. This paper is devoted to study later, based on relations between our state and social, Combined with the theory of civil society, pluralism theory, the government information disclosure theory and the technocracy theory."Think tank" can be traced back to ancient China think-tank and advisers, and the civil think tanks after the reform and opening. Under the background of the relationship between state and society civil think tanks’ rise and development is inevitable, because of the country to improve the social diversification and democratization, the role of a bridge management ability, and this is think tanks’ development direction.Both dynamic factors and resistance factors should be considered on the development of civil think tanks. In the dynamic factors, such as the increase in social problems, the transformation of the governmental functions and decision, the growth of civil society, citizen education and personnel training, the promoting role of new media and complement the official and semi-official think tanks. Chinese civil think tanks on the road of the development the same obstacles, such as constraints of Chinese traditional culture, weak right of speech and lacking influence under the political elite decision-making system, restrictions from government, the lack of social support, indistinct fixed position for its own development in the country and society, the lack of information, human, capital and other resources, distemperedness of management system. On the basis of a thorough analysis of ourselves, we must learn from America think tanks’development experience of political culture, political system, stable funding, independent operating mechanism to promote the development of Chinese civil think tanks. In terms of direction, we have to make clear the development of civil think tanks; In terms of external environment, the state and society must give support in order to create a good environment. In terms of its own system, civil think tanks should rely through one’s own efforts on improving the policy influence, perfecting management system, establishing a professional team and so on.