A Theoretical Study on the Political Participation
of Migrant Workers
Abstract
With the evolution of the process of urbanization, migrant workers have become the emerging industrial working groups, to give them equal status of workers and enjoy the right to equal participation in political affairs of our country's political development is an inevitable trend.But under the background of the long estranged relations between urban and rural residents,which was caused by dual structure in China, the political participation of migrant workers has long been in a marginalized plight because of such factors as system defect,improper policy and migrant workers' own quality.Political participation is the migrant workers exercise their democratic rights one of the important ways, is to safeguard its rights and interests of an important guarantee. As the special status of migrant workers and the system deficiencies and other reasons,caused the political participation of ruralmigrants has fell into in a difficult position in which the institutional participation is set invain and the non-institutional participation is increasing sharply at present. On the one hand, this increases the transaction cost in the society and reduces the efficiency of the social operation and on the other hand, this erodes the valid foundation of the government and influences the construction of the harmonious society. Therefore, from the angle of the theoretical innovation of the system, this article puts foreword the system innovation such as the material conditions, system, organization, society, in-born ability of ruralmigrants and so on, in order to propel the growth of institutional political participation of ruralmigrants.
KeyWords:migrant workers;political participation;non-institutional participation; counter measure
