| "Non-elected representatives" have been widely concerned by scholars in the study of Western representative theory,and the differences in China’s "non-elected representatives" experience are conducive to enriching the connotation and scope of this concept.Different from the representative political model in which Western political representatives focus on elections to realize the interests of citizens of different local groups,Chinese political representatives rely more on a representative political model based on responsiveness and accountability to realize the overall interests of the people and public interests,which is mainly reflected in the fact that the Communist Party of China has constructed different representation forms of elected representatives and non-elected representatives through the integration and shaping of the people as a whole.This article reconstructs the concept of “non-elected representatives” to explain the experience of political representatives in China,that is,political representatives who are not elected through formal election procedures,but can represent other groups and carry out representative activities,that is,Deputies elected through informal election procedures,except deputies to the National People’s Congress and members of village committees.China’s institutionalized non-elected representatives are mainly members of the CPPCC who are not elected by the people but are recommended by the Communist Party of China through consultation with various sectors and officially authorized by the CPPCC.This embodies the logic of representative politics that absorbs and integrates the overall interests of the people.This paper argues that the representativeness of non-elected representatives is formally produced without a formal election process,but at the substantive level,it has been recognized by the represented,realized the interests of the represented,and responded to their demands.This is mainly reflected in the broadness of the representative structure at the substantive level and the consistency with the structure of the represented group,and it is more manifested in the effective realization of the interests of the represented in terms of representative behavior.Therefore,this article takes the CPPCC members in China as an example to analyze the representativeness of non-elected representatives.This article selects the relevant data of the 11 th CPPCC meeting of Guangdong Province as the statistical analysis object,analyzes the CPPCC members’ sector,age,occupation,gender,and region information in terms of representative structure,and analyzes the agenda content of CPPCC members’ proposals in terms of representative behavior.Through statistical analysis,this paper finds that CPPCC members have a broad representative structure and effective representative behavior.In addition,from the analysis of the correlation between the content of the committee members’ proposals and the occupations and sectors of the members,it is found that the members of the CPPCC are representative of certain occupations and sectors.Furthermore,this paper believes that mandatory constraints and independent formation are the two paths for the representative formation of CPPCC members.This paper uses the cases of Zhu Yongxin and Hu Wei as CPPCC members to analyze the process of CPPCC members’ representative autonomy formation,and believes that the formation of CPPCC members,Representative processes for performance and oversight accountability are enforced by institutional structures.The logic of the representative generation process of CPPCC members shows the characteristics of two paths: mandatory constraints and autonomous generation.It is characterized by a dual path of mandatory constraints and autonomous generation.This thesis explores the representative logic of CPPCC members as non-elected representatives,attempts to use Chinese experience to reconstruct the scope and connotation of "non-elected representatives" in Western representative theory,and analyzes the relationship between the Chinese Communist Party,political representatives,and the public.Relationship,so as to go beyond the stereotype of electoral democracy theory,construct a representative theory suitable for the operation logic of Chinese political representatives,and realize the innovation of Western political representative theory. |
