A Research On Public Legal Services Purchased By Grassroots Governments

In the light of the problems and roots of the government's purchase of public legal servic es in L District of C City,this paper compares the practice of the government's purchase of pu blic legal services in Hangzhou City and Zhongshan City with the way in Britain and the Unit ed States,and puts forward the following suggestions: firstly,to play the role of the governme nt,that means,to formulate policies related to the purchase of services by the government,an d to guide the development of service market and service subjects;secondly,to establish a the mechanism of government purchasing public legal services which means to establish a contra ctual cooperation model between government and service providers,and to formulate a monit oring and feedback mechanism for the whole process of service provision.The third is to stim ulate the market vitality of public legal service provision,that is,to guarantee budget funds an d encourage the participation of public welfare organizations.Since the reform and opening up,the construction of public legal service system in China has been continuously promoted.Currently,the system has initially formed a public service su pply system with the government-led,social partcipation,public and private sectors.As the im protant part of the legal consrruction,public legal service is necessary requirement of maintai ning social stability and promoting equity and justice.At the same time,with the rapid develop ment in China,the increasing social contradictions bring about higher professional demand fo r public services.lt requires the government to give full play to the role of the market mechani sm,through the certain ways and procedures to transfer the public legal services to qualified social forces to undertake.The government purchase of public legal services plays an importa nt role in fostering citizens' belief in the rule of law;guiding the public to solve conflicts and disputes through legal approach.It is also meaningful to the shaping of modern law-based go vernment,service-oriented government and limited government.Based on the relevant concepts of government purchasing public legal services,this pape r uses the theory of new public management and public management to analyze the current si tuation and existing problems of government purchasing public legal services in L District of C City.And it shows that in the process of government purchasing public legal services,there are a series of problems,such as the lack of long-term policy,insufficient funds guarantee,t he lack of initiative of service providers,the lack of trust of the masses in public legal services,and the low level of marketization of public services.The paper deems that the main causes o f these problems is in that the government has not yet completed the transformation from a ma nagement-oriented government to a service-oriented government,the government attaches litt le importance to it,the lack of supervision and feedback mechanism,the lack of independent participation of neutral third-party organizations,the immature development of the public lega l service system,and so on.Aiming at the problems and causes of C City L District Government's purchasing public legal services,this paper compares the practices of the UK,United States and Hangzhou,Zhon g Shan in government purchase of public legal servicesdefining the orientation of the govern ment,that means,defining the leading role of the government in providing public legal servic es,strengthening the awareness of government services;and establishing government purchas e.Buying public legal service mechanism means establishing the contractual cooperation mod e between the government and service providers,formulating detailed contents and evaluation indicators of public service purchasing,formulating coordination and responsibility system a mong departments,formulating supervision and feedback mechanism,and stimulating the ma rket vitality of public legal service provision,that is,guaranteeing budgetary funds and encour aging the participation of public welfare groups.