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Title:: Theoretical and Practical Dimensions of Publicness in ModernizingState Governance：A Review of Modernizing State Governance under theView of Publicness

Keywords:: value of publicness; fairness and justice; modernizing state governance; cooperative stategovernance

Abstract:: Currently，the pursuit of publicness constitutes the essence of the governance of China as wellas the prospect of its modernization of governance. Publicness，as a matter of fact，embodies the virtuesrequired by the activities of the state，the ruling party and the government. Through examining the valuepractice of publicness both diachronically and synchronically，we made a critical review of the root cause forthe trap of so-called formal publicness into which the western countries have fallen during the modernizationof their state governance. A logical conclusion of our examination and review is that the integration betweenformal publicness and substantial publicness is required by the logic between the value pursuit of modernstate governance and the mode of state governance and by the principle governing the practice in this regard.Therefore，this integration is of great theoretical and practical significance for identifying the social mechanismof the future evolution of the value of state governance；for promoting the modernization of China’s systemand capacity for state governance；and then for proposing a Chinese approach to the modernization of stategovernance on the basis of exploring the ways of integrating formal publicness and substantial publicness.