The Government Must Maintain Crucial Relationships With...

The government must maintain crucial relationships with the society. The leaders uphold the basic rights by guaranteeing people s security and equitable distribution of resources. The Chinese government has implemented several policies that enabled the cooperation between the state and the social organizations. The social organizations, such as NGOs, have a significant role in connecting the state and the society and in enhancing their relationship. They are the extensions of the government to the certain areas that the government couldn’t reach, helping the government better meet the society’s needs. In The Advance of the Party: Transformation or Takeover of Urban Grassroots Society? the author noted that there was immense†¦show more content†¦Although the government appears to exact control in the social organizations, their relationships are said to be symbiotic. The social organizations always find ways to negotiate with the government on how to meet the interests of their members (â€Å"Negotiating the state: The development of social organizations in China†, p. 125). The government is making efforts to involve the society in the developments through the social organizations. Wang and Carl explain that the increasing social unrest is a force generated from communist rule, increasing the need for the government to respond the people’s needs. Social organizations have been used in the control of unrest of people created by previous leaders through the introduction of reforms dating back to 1990’s. In light of the challenges of dealing with societa l unrest, the government’s response was to involve society in major decisions, thus initiating the formation of social organizations. In the article â€Å"The Rise of the Chinese Security State,† Wang and Carl mention that there was establishment of special offices for dealing with social stability, an example of these special offices being the anti-cult departments; and those special offices being predecessors of social organizations. In democratic nations, such as the United States, each political party has to come with its policies and manifestos.