Checks and balances in Western countries

Author: Ye Hao
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: This article not only provides the basic context and analytical framework for the development of the theory of checks and balances but also creates a broader platform for in-depth research on the theory and its practice, offering high theoretical and practical value. — Zhang Yongtao Overall, the article achieves a unity of theory and practice, history and reality, with significant cognitive value. — Wang Xikui Checks and balances is an important topic in the history of Western political thought. This topic originated in ancient Greece, with its classic resolution completed during the modern bourgeois revolution period. Even today, many political thinkers continue to engage in reflection and debate around it. In the process of the incubation and development of modern political forms, the consensus reached by Western political thinkers on the issue of checks and balances is not only reflected in a series of interrelated theoretical assumptions but also significantly influences and integrates into the institutional framework of Western politics, manifesting in a series of institutional arrangements of modern democratic politics. Based on an of the theoretical premises, rational expressions, characteristic summaries, methods, special essence, functions, and limitations of Western checks and balances, this book reviews and reflects on the issues of checks and balances in socialist countries, the international communist movement, and ancient feudal China, providing some beneficial insights for the construction of socialist political civilization.