Governing and Good Governance - A Study on the Ethical Issues of the Ruling Party

Author: Li Jianhua
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: The competition of comprehensive national strength in the contemporary world, a crucial aspect of which is the competition in governance capacity, governance level, governance efficiency, and governance style of the ruling party. All of this relies on the self-construction of the ruling party. On a global scale, ruling parties of different types face many similar issues, among which the issue of political legitimacy is particularly prominent. During the period of social transformation, ruling parties to varying degrees face the issue of legitimacy crisis, and the Communist Party of China is no exception. How to explore the issue of political legitimacy of ruling parties from the perspective of party ethics is a major theoretical and practical issue before us. This book discusses major theoretical issues such as the nature of parties, the endogenous ethics of parties, the characteristics of ruling party ethics, the rational foundation of ruling party ethics, and the ethical requirements of governance capacity. At the same time, as a case study, it carefully summarizes the experience and lessons of the ethical and moral construction of the Communist Party of China and proposes valuable insights on how to enhance the political legitimacy and governance capacity of the Communist Party of China by strengthening the ethical construction of the ruling party.