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A Stduy Of Government Public Information Service In Contemprary China

Posted on:2007-07-08Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:J W DengFull Text:PDF
GTID:1116360245975345Subject:Political Theory
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The world nowadays has already stepped into the Information Age. Public information, as a kind of important strategic resource, has played greater and greater role in the course of social development. Someone occupies information, and he holds a lead in collecting, processing, dealing with and utilizing information, and he can obtain the advantage in the competition .For this reason, the governments in various countries, including Chinese Government ,put the emphasis of service on offering public information. Under this kind of situation, to research systematically on government public information service in Contemporary China undoubtedly has important theoretic value and realistic meaning.In the introduction, this dissertation defines important concepts, such as information, public information, government, governmental function, public service, government public service, government public information service, etc. at first. This dissertation thinks, government public information service means the duty , behavior and course of collecting , processing , transmitting or disclosing public information of the government through multiple channels and methods in order to satisfy masses' demands for public information,. Then, this dissertation distinguish public administration and public service, public information , government information and government public information , government information open and government public information service , information service and government public information service. The introduction still includes the overview of related study on the subject, ends and meaning, main contents, main methods, materials and innovative space of this dissertation, etc..Chapter one studies the theory and practice of government public information service. There are inner links among modernization process, the transformation of government functions and government public information service. The governments in various countries regard public information service as a main service function in modernization process. Public information is pure public goods, and there will be the problem of Prisoners'dilemma for its voluntary provision. That is to say, the insufficiency in its voluntary provision is in Nash Equilibrium. So the government must provide public information service. Government public information service possesses the function of strengthening government's legitimacy,the function of developing political democracy, the function of guaranteeing citizen's right , the function of enhancing government's efficiency ,the function of strengthening the consciousness of keeping a promise, the function of safeguarding social stability ,the function of preventing and curing the political corruption, and the function of promoting the economic growth. The origin of theory of government public information service traces back to the period of Shang Dynasty and Zhou Dynasty of China and the period of Ancient Greek. The development of theory of government public information service continues to this day. The practice of government public information service in China and foreign countries also went through the evolving course of emergence and development.Chapter two studies the principle of government public information service in Contemporary China. This chapter thinks that the changes of the idea in value aspect of government public information service in Contemporary China are shown as the development of the theory of government public information service of the CPC mainly in directly relevant dimension. The changes of the idea in value aspect of government public information service in Contemporary China are shown as the development and change from serving the people to leading is to serve, and to wielding power for the people in indirectly relevant dimension. The changes of the idea in fact aspect of government public information service in Contemporary China are shown as the transition from the idea of serving government to the combined idea of serving government and serving the people. The promoting reasons of the changes of the idea of government public information service in Contemporary China are in many aspects. The promoting reasons in economic aspect are that soliciting business and absorbing foreign capital and the accession to the WTO promote the changes of the idea of government public information service in Contemporary China. The promoting reasons in political aspect are that the construction of rule by law, administrative reform and the support for political innovation of supreme leaders of the CPC promote the changes of the idea of government public information service in Contemporary China. The promoting reasons in cultural aspect are that the strength of subject consciousness of citizens and the secularization of political culture promote the changes of the idea of government public information service in Contemporary China. The promoting reason in social aspect is that the pluralism of information promotes the changes of the idea of government public information service in Contemporary China. This chapter studies eight basic principles of government public information service in Contemporary China finally, namely the principle of legality, the principle of timeliness, the principle of appropriation in amount, the principle of truth , the principle of using easily, the principle of diversity, the principle of balance and the principle of security.Chapter three studies the systems of government public information service in Contemporary China. This chapter successively analyses the arrangements of the system, the defects of the system and the innovation of the system of government public information service in Contemporary China. The arrangements of the system of government public information service in Contemporary China include the system of the organization, the system of collecting information, the system of processing information, the system of information transmission, the system of supervision and the system of investigating the responsibility. The system of the organization is the framework of the organization which the central organizations of information, the information sites and the information channels of linking different information organizations and the information sites form. The system of collecting information concludes five kinds of concrete systems ,such as the system of which the representatives in People's Congress and the members in the CPPCC maintain links with the masses, the system of letters and visits from the masses, the hearing system , the system of social consultation and dialogue and government's census system , etc.. The mechanism of the public information processes of the Chinese policy-making level and the system of government's statistical analysis are the realistic system arrangements of government public information processing service in Contemporary China. Viewed form systemic changes, the system of information transmission service is shown as the system of public information transmission through single passage and the system of public information transmission through single many passages respectively. Viewed form concrete systems, the system of information transmission chiefly includes the system of openly showing, the system of government's press spokesman, the system of announcing government's statistical data ,etc. The People's Congress'supervision, the administrative supervision, the supervision by CPPCC, the supervision by public opinion and supervision by the masses form the supervision system of government public information service in Contemporary China together. The system of investigating the responsibility in politics is a kind of the institutional arrangements of investigating the responsibility that can't be stipulated by law in explicit terms. The system of investigating the responsibility in law is a kind of the institutional arrangements of investigating the responsibility that can be stipulated by law in explicit terms. Government in Contemporary China needs to structure these two kinds of the system of asking responsibility in public information service because they complement one another.The arrangements of the system of government public information service in Contemporary China have defects. The defects of the system of the organization are shown that government's professional information organization, official news media and research institution of the policy, etc. have flaws. These defects make all kinds of information organizations difficult to bring their functions of collecting, processing and transmitting information into play better. The defects of the system of information collecting are chiefly that the system of which the representatives in People's Congress and the members in the CPPCC maintain links with the masses does not give play to the role which it should have, that the system of letters and visits from the masses has flaws, that the hearing system is not perfect, and that the system of government's census is defective. The main defects of the system of information processing are that the mode of the statistical information processes has flaws, and that the statistical analysis system of the government utilizing the foreign capitals is not perfect. The defects of the system of information transmission mainly include that the system of openly showing before cadres'appointment has problems, that the system of government's press spokesman has problems ,and that the system of government's statistical yearbook has problems, etc.. The defects of the system of supervision are mainly that the People's Congress'supervision has not enough force, that the result of checking and rating supervision is not good, that the function of the supervision by CPPCC is not great, and that the channel of supervision by public opinion is not smooth. The system of investigating the responsibility has defects, such as some responsibilities are not clear, the force of responsibility investigation is not enough.The innovations of the system of government public information service in Contemporary China are act and measures of perfecting the defects of the system. The point of putting forth effort of the structural innovation of organization lies in strengthening the construction of government's professional information organization, strengthening the construction of official news media, and strengthening the construction of research organization in policy. The main contents of the innovations of the system of information collecting are to perfect the system of which the representatives in People's Congress and the members in the CPPCC maintain links with the masses, to perfect the system of letters and visits from the masses, to perfect the hearing system, and to perfect government's census system, etc.. The innovations of the system of information processing include setting up the new mode of statistical information processes and perfecting the statistical analysis system of the government utilizing the foreign capitals, etc.. The main contents of the innovations of the system of information transmission are to perfect the system of openly showing before cadres'appointment, to perfect the system of government's press spokesman, to perfect the system of government's statistical yearbook, etc.. The chosen route to the innovation of the system of supervision are to strengthen the mechanism of supervision by the People's Congress, to strengthen the mechanism of checking and rating supervision, to strengthen the mechanism of the supervision by CPPCC, and to strengthen the mechanism of the supervision by public opinion. The innovations of the system of investigating the responsibility are located in defining responsibility further and strengthening the force of responsibility investigation.Chapter four studies the behavior of government public information service in Contemporary China. This chapter studies the main behavior of government public information service in Contemporary China at first, namely to collect public information, to process public information and to transmit public information. The government in Contemporary China has collected public information through the channels such as the CPPCC, the consultation from expert, hearing, letters and visits from the masses, social consultation and dialogue and investigation. The government in Contemporary China has sieved, classified, analyzed and edited public information on this basis. To transmit public information refers to the behavior and course of propagating, disclosing, announcing or releasing public information to the public by various kinds of means. On the one hand, the government in Contemporary China has announced a large amount of public information; on the other hand, she has disclosed her own behavior voluntarily in practice. Then, this chapter analyses the problems of the behavior of government public information service in Contemporary China, and thinks that the contents of government public information service in Contemporary China are comparatively limited ,that the norm lacks to some extent , that the law lacks to some extent , the ways are comparatively monotonous , and the quality remains to be improved. This chapter puts forward the corresponding act and measures to perfect the problems of the behavior of government public information service in Contemporary China finally, and thinks that it is essential to expand the contents of the behavior of government public information service, to set up the norm of the behavior of government public information service, to make the law of the behavior of government public information service, to improve ways to the behavior of government public information service, to improve the quality of the behavior of government public information service in order to solve the problems of the behavior of government public information service in Contemporary China.Chapter five studies the technology of government public information service in Contemporary China. The methods of government public information service in Contemporary China are divided into the methods of information collecting service, the methods of information processing service and the methods of information transmitting service. The government in Contemporary China has utilized the investigation method, the method of having an informal discussion and the method of consultation in providing public information collecting service; has utilized the method of prediction, the method of comparison, the method of classification and the method of analysis and synthesis in providing public information processing service; has utilized mass media, set up the hall of disclosing government information, set up the column of disclosing government information in providing public information transmitting service. The technology of government public information service in Contemporary China includes mainly the technology of the computer, the network technology , the technology of information security , the technology of digital library and printing technology ,etc..Chapter five also probes into the problems of the technology of government public information service in Contemporary China, and points out that some problems exist in the investigation method, that there are some problems in the setting-up of the open hall, and that the research, development and application of the technology and products of information security are relatively backward, and that the technology of Government Information Portal lacks etc.. After probing into the problems of the technology of government public information service in Contemporary China, this chapter puts forward some act and measures to perfect the problems, such as perfecting the investigation method, solving the problems that the hall of government information open has while setting up, strengthen the research and development of the technology of information security, and establishing Government Information Portal etc..Concluding remarks try hard to observe and consider the development of government public information service in Contemporary China under the context of social modernization, analyses the mutual promotion between modernization of the Chinese society in the 21st century and government public information service.
Keywords/Search Tags:Contemporary China, government, public information, service
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