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The Study On The Conflict Between The Self-interest Of The Government And The Public Interest During The Transition Period In China

Posted on:2009-02-11Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:H B LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1116360272476132Subject:Political Theory
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The interests are the eternal topic of human society. It is because of the common interests that made the human beings format a tribe, clan, and a nation. Marx, who is also deeply aware of the importance of the interests, deeply exposes the nature of the capitalist system from the perspective of the economic benefits. However, because of the interests of entities and the demands of interests pluralism, besides the pursuit of common interests, the conflicts of interest among different entities has been accompanied by the development of human society.Government, as the country's external manifestations, is specializing in social management and public services. According to the traditional political points of view, government, as the exerciser of authority and the statutory agent, the basic value of its existence is to maintain and develop the public interests of the society which is the ultimate goal, it is not only a fundamental constitutional principle which any democratic country must adhere to, but also the root for the legitimacy of the government. However, public interest is an abstract and faint concept, its main body and content can hardly be affirmed, so this provides the possibility for the Government of the deviation from the right track of action.Basing on the concept of the public choice theory, government is an"economic man", also has the demand to pursue its self-interest. When there is a contra between the government's self-interest hunting and the public interest, the government, out of the natural of"economic man", may probably abandon, even violate the public interest, which deviates the initial purpose when it was first organized. In reality, there are a large number of phenomena which the conflict of self-interest between the government and the public exists. Nowadays, with the transition period of China transforms from the traditional planned economic system to socialist market economic system, the social transformation breaks the unitary structure of the entities divided by different interests under the traditional planned economic system, multiple entities have come into being, and the conflict among different entities, which, caused by the dispute of interest, has been come out day by day, and the conflict of interest between the government and the public should be better controlled, or may not only weaken the legal foundation of the government, but also endanger the political and economic stability. Our country is in the transition period from the traditional planned economic system to socialist market economic system. The transition period is a social security-prone period, so building a harmonious society is proposed under this background. The division of the interests of community structure and the interest in re-adjustment are the typical characters during China's transition period. This social transition breaks the unitary structure of the entities divided by different interests under the traditional planned economic system, multiple entities have come out, and the conflict among different entities, which, caused by the dispute of interest, has been on the way of upgrading. These conflicts always lead the government, which, should be on behalf of the public interest, to self-interest hunting. The conflict of interest between the government and the public should be better controlled, or the society would be damaged or even destroyed. This article is based on the analysis of self-interest of the government and public interest, analyzes the origin of the conflicts of interest between the government and the public, and uses conflict-related aspects of the useful experience of western countries and our own for reference, explores the efficient methods to deal with the conflicts of interest between the government and the public, so it has a great practical significance on building a harmonious society by promote the harmony between self-interest of government and the public interest.Nowadays, our country is in the transformation period from the traditional planned economic system to socialist market economic system. This social transformation breaks the unitary structure of the entities divided by different interests under the traditional planned economic system, multiple entities have been coming out, and the conflict among different entities, which, caused by the dispute of interest, has been on the way of upgrading. These conflicts always lead the government, which, should be on behalf of the public interest, to self-interest hunting. The conflict of interest between the government and the public should be better controlled, or the society would be damaged or even destroyed. This article is based on the analysis of self-interest of the government and public interest, to provide some positive solutions.To organize better, this essay absorbed the results of domestic and international research, applied the method of conflict of interest, and the method of criterion analyzing, interest analyzing, to analyze the behave, influence, and the reason of the conflict between the self-interest of the government and the public interest, and so we can get some harmonizing mechanism, and lead to a harmonious pattern.In this thesis, the content of the framework includes the following four parts:1. The basic category of the conflict between the self-interest of the government and the public interest. The definition of interest is to meet one's demand, while conflict is an unharmonious state resulting from the differences and oppositions of social entities on interests, needs and values. By analyzing the two key words "self-interest of the government"and"public interest", this thesis points out that the public interest will be damaged unavoidably when the government pursues self-interest, then the conflict has been formed. This conflict can be categorized to non-confrontational contradictions among the domestic people in China nowadays. Self-interest of the government which is opposite to the public interests, is one of the various interests of communities in human society, and as a part of the interests of government, it is a special or narrow-minded local interest owned by the government, and is also one of the different kinds of the common interests that exists in the society. With the uncertainty both in body and contents, the pubic interest provides the government some space and possibilities to damage itself.2. Theoretic model and practical experience in coordinating the conflict between the self-interest of government and the public interest. Based on the hypothesis of"economic man", principal-agent theory, public choice theory, social conflict theory and so on, the thesis constructs and analyzes the theoretic model of nowadays transitional self-interest of government and the public interest in China. We can sum up our country's beneficial experience in solving this conflict by studying the methods, through which, our Chinese central collective leadership has correctly handled the contradictions among the people. And we can use conflict-related aspects of the useful experience of western countries for reference. Western countries have formed a lot of useful experience for our country during their long time reforms and practice, such as legalizing the ethic of administration, keeping officials not corrupt by giving them high salary, using power to restrict the power of the government.3. Analysis of the status quo of interest conflict between the transitional government and the public. The solution to the problem is based on the precise analysis. And this part mainly analyzes the performance, the negative impact and the causes of the conflict between the self-interest of Chinese government and the public. There are three parts of the conflict between the self-interest of the government and the public interest in reality, including the conflicts between the public interests and the self-interests of the whole government, the functional departments and officials of the government. During which can cause the crisis of government legitimacy, weaken the capacity of government, extend corruption, increase the cost of social economical development, destroy the founding of a harmonious society, etc. However, the reason of conflicts between the two is not only because the government itself, but the insufficient of the incentive and restraint mechanisms4. To create the coordination mechanisms for the conflict of interest between the self-interest of the government and the public. To coordinate the conflict we must set a win-win goal about a rational self-interest of the government and the public interest .To make innovations in the economic, system, legal, and moral mechanisms to harmonize the self-interest of the government and the public interest, and to promote the project of building a harmonious society in China. By economic means, we can develop the economy to meet the proper self-interest of the government. Through policy coordination, we can restrict the irrational outspread of the self-interest of the government. By law, we can protect the communal interest within qualifying the government behavior. On morality aspect, we can promote the communal-interest protecting consciousness of the government through educating the official's administration ethics and professional ethics.
Keywords/Search Tags:Transition period, Self-interest of the government, Public interest, Conflict of interest
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