The Direct Election Of Mayor And County Magistrate In China

The election system including the election of representative organization representativesand elected government officials. Observation from the electoral system of the world, bothrepresentatives of representative organs or public servants, both direct and indirect election bythe way of combining the election. However, in China only the election of deputies and twokinds of election. Due to the current constitutional restrictions, civil servants have beenproduced by indirect way of election. This does not accord with the people directly involvedin national elections, needs and desires, also do not accord with the development trend ofmodern democracy. This break our current constitutional restrictions, standing in the angle ofsystem rationality and democracy of height, selected the most representative city county asthe object, the feasibility study in China directly elected, the public servants of the stateelectoral reform starting from the grassroots, gradually expand socialist democracy. The maincontents of this paper are as follows:The first part, the history of Chinese listed county. This section describes the system ofprefectures and counties to implement the first start from the historical period in thecontemporary, China mayors have changes in the way of choroid. Analysis of each period citycounty has the way the progress and shortcomings, to deepen the understanding of thechanges in the way the city magistrate, find the development rule of worthy of our referencefrom.The second part, the advantages and disadvantages of China mayors elected indirectly.The part from the efficiency and the stability of the mayor’s indirect election advantages, atthe same time from the mass base, curb corruption and the ruling ability of the party deeplyanalyzed the disadvantages of long, and indirect election mode, so as to achieve the purposeof the necessity to reform.The third part, Chinese mayors directly elected to expand socialist democracy necessary.The first part makes objective criticism of the National People’s Congress mayors in indirectelection "representative" whether people elected, doubt or deny the conclusion tells us, inview of the importance of the mayor’s position, it is necessary to implement direct elections toavoid the "representative" according to the theory of deficiency. Secondly, the author from theangle of system rationality, analysis of the introduction of direct election of mayors to expandthe importance of socialist democracy. The fourth part, the feasibility analysis of the legal China direct election of mayors. Thispart is an important aspect of this paper, the logic system of direct elections of the success orfailure of Chinese city county. First of all, this article from the provisions of the constitutionof the spirit of the constitution, mining, the conclusion is, although the city county magistrateelection in violation of China’s current constitutional system, but the objective and theconstitution of the system consistent with the spirit; secondly, from the angle of constitutiontheory in detail, rational according to the system of direct election of mayors the directelection of mayors, with legitimacy theory; finally, discusses on the practical level, the mayorof direct election of the conditions required to solve the system and difficulties.The fifth part, the system design China mayors of direct election. In this section theauthor made bold, attempts to explore design. The design never relies on the imagination, butfrom the election mechanism, the mode of election, nomination and confirmation ofcandidates and campaign in four aspects, to the western democratic election system indeveloped countries for reference, the democratic reform of our pilot practice, system designand Prospect of rational.