政治协商制度与现代政治文明

Political Consultative System & Modern Political Civilization

政治协商制度是当代中国在长期政治实践中形成的处理政治事务、协调政治关系的一项民主制度设计,它的发展与完善同当代中国政治文明的发展是密切联系的,并且直接反映了政治文明进步。当代中国的民主本质上是一种协商性民主。在当代中国,作为协调不同利益关系、建立协商机制的政治协商制度,正是一种符合现代政治文明要求的制度设计。作为符合有中国特色社会主义民主政治要求的一种制度性选择,政治协商制度对于推进社会主义政治文明建设、完善社会主义民主制度具有重要意义。

As an institutional design of democracy, the System of Political Consultative Conference is a type of function mechanism of dealing with political affairs and coordinating with political ralations, which has been developed in a long period of Chinese political practice.The development and improvement of the system have not only made cloze relations with the development of modern political civilization of China, but also made direct reflections of the progress of the political civilization. The democracy of modern China, in fact, is a kind of consultative democracy. In modern China, the System of Political Consultative Conference, a type of function mechanism of coodinating all kinds of interests and establishing the consultative mechaism, is just an institutional design suiting the need of modern political civilization. Based on this, as an institutional choice fitting for the need of socilist democratic politics with Chinese characteristics, the System of Political Consultative Conference has contributed significantly to the evolution of socilist political civilization and the improvement of socilist democratic system.