In the form of democracy, western capitalist countries generally adopt representative indirect democracy. Voters vote for state power organs, and then they exercise state power on behalf of voters. Some people call this democracy electoral democracy or voting democracy. However, representative electoral democracy has inherent defects: voters can only decide who will exercise state power on their behalf by voting, but can't directly participate in the exercise of state power. Their democratic right is actually to vote in elections every few years. Rousseau, a French thinker, commented on this democracy more than 200 years ago: "The British people think they are free; They are all wet. They are free only during the election of parliamentarians; Once a member is elected, he is a slave, which is equal to zero. " Various interest groups manipulate elections with money in the election campaign, which further magnifies the problems and defects of representative electoral democracy.
The form of democracy in Socialism with Chinese characteristics is a combination of electoral democracy and deliberative democracy. Of course, the main form of democracy in China is electoral democracy. In addition, China has a long history of deliberative democracy with China characteristics, which is organically combined with electoral democracy. China's deliberative democracy is mainly carried out through two channels: one is the consultation between political parties. * * * As the ruling party, the Production Party often consults and talks directly with democratic parties and people without party affiliation who participate in politics on major national issues. According to statistics, from 1990 to the end of 20 10, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the State Council and the entrusted departments held nearly 300 consultations, symposiums and briefings. The second is the consultation of CPPCC meeting. In addition, members of democratic parties and personages without party affiliation hold leading positions in people's congresses, governments, CPPCC and judicial organs, which is also an important part of China's multi-party cooperation and political consultation system. At present, there are about 32,000 non-party cadres who hold leadership positions at or above the county level in China's governments and judicial departments at all levels, and 3 1 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities basically have democratic parties or people without party affiliation [2]. At the same time, government departments and judicial organs at all levels also employ non-party people as special inspectors, prosecutors and auditors. This has become an important measure and institutional arrangement for democratic parties to play a democratic supervisory role. For example, the National Audit Office organizes special auditors to directly participate in the audit, work and investigation of major projects such as the implementation of the central budget, resettlement funds in the Three Gorges reservoir area, loan funds from the World Bank and investment project funds. 20 10 from April 20 to 25, the Standing Committee of China People's Political Consultative Conference and Shanghai CPPCC formed a joint research group, with the theme of "Public Diplomacy of China 20 10 Shanghai World Expo", and made a special investigation on the preparations for the Shanghai World Expo, especially the external publicity and exchanges. 20 10 the secretary and mayor of Shenzhen municipal party Committee took the lead in the proposal of CPPCC for the first time, and organized seven large-scale research groups to supervise the key proposals for the first time, so that the political consultation was implemented [3]. According to the clear requirements put forward by the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, we have now incorporated political consultation into the necessary procedure of decision-making, further promoting the combination of two forms of democracy in China, making the major decisions of the party and the state based on full political consultation, and realizing the successful docking of China's fundamental political system and basic political system in procedure. This not only expands citizens' political participation and social foundation of democracy, but also improves the scientificity and level of decision-making and fundamentally overcomes the inevitability of simply implementing electoral democracy.
The key to evaluating whether a country's political system and democratic political development are correct is to look at three things: first, whether the country's political situation is stable, second, whether it can enhance people's unity and improve people's lives, and third, whether the productive forces can continue to develop. Compared with these three items, China has achieved political stability, social stability and national unity in the past 30 years, correctly handled the relationship between reform, development and stability, and embarked on the track of high-speed and steady economic development. According to the strategic deployment of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the "July 1st" speech last year, as long as we stick to the road of political development with China characteristics, make unremitting efforts and make solid progress, we will certainly be able to achieve the development goal of democratic politics in Socialism with Chinese characteristics.