关键词: 全过程人民民主, 民主参与, 制度体系, 治理能力, 政治发展

Abstract: Developing wholeprocess people's democracy is the core category of Chinese political modernization to create a new form of human political advancement. A scientific inspection of the concept and connotation of the “wholeprocess” is not only the logical premise to promote the deepening of the study of wholeprocess peoples democracy, but also the cognitive basis to continuously expand the space for the development of wholeprocess peoples democracy in practice. Based on a threedimensional analytical framework at the micro, meso and macro levels and within the content structure dimension of “normativityempiricism”, this paper shows that the process of procedural regulation and substantive protection of the basic rights of citizens at the micro level, the process of scientific construction and effective operation of political system at the meso level, and the process of value integration and path expansion of new political civilization at the macro level constitute the abundant connotation of the concept of “wholeprocess”, demonstrating that wholeprocess peoples democracy is the broadest, most authentic and most effective form of democracy.

Key words: whole-process people's democracy, democratic participation, institutional system, governance capacity, political development