Institutional features of the activity of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

The present study examines the institutional framework for functioning of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) as an organizational form of deliberative mechanisms for making political and administrative decisions. The aim of the author is to determine the role of this social and political association in the state system of the People's Republic of China (PRC), to establish consistency of such an institutional criterion as the legitimizing nature of the CPPCC activities. The author used a historical method (for analyzing the evolution of the CPPCC functions), as well as institutional and comparative approaches (comparing the CPPCC with a similar institution of the Russian Federation). As a result, the author states that the considered socio-political association should not only unite different political forces on its basis, but also develop sentiments of patriotism in democratic parties, as well as among non-party leaders, determined by the Constitution of the PRC.