A Rsearch On The Influence Of Mongolian Informal Institution In Administrative Activity

As far as administrative activities concerned, it is not enough to only depend on the formal institutions of administration to achieve the orderly management of the society. we also need informal institutions such as custom taboos, ethics, religious beliefs as supplement and expansion. This is because any social institution is composed of formal institutions and informal institutions, and although the informal institutions which originate from people’s life and production activity have not been formulated or recognized by the law procedure, they, along with the formal institutions, contribute to adjusting people’s social relations and maintaining social order. Especially in the national autonomous areas, due to the restrictive factors such as the geographical environment, transportation, language barriers, traditional cultures, etc, formal administrative institutions are difficult to touch each field of social life. This needs the supplement and expansion of informal institutions, such as custom taboos, ethics, religious beliefs, clan’s consciousness of ethnic minority. This paper, first of all, by using literature research methods, elaborates the development and evolution of Mongolian informal institutions from the vertical perspective, and then applying institution analysis methods, field research methods and standardized research methods, it analyzes the negative and positive effects of these informal institutions, and its operating mechanism in the administrative activities of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Finally, based on the conflicts between the informal institutions and formal administrative institutions, the present author proposes some routes and specific measures for the compatibility of both sides.Based on the above research this paper comes to the following conclusions:firstly, with the establishment of the modern state power, Mongolian informal institutions gradually exit from the political and administrative field and retreat to its rightful position. These informal institutions permeate every aspect of Mongolian people’s life by way of public opinions and people’s inner conviction, conscience and play an important role where administrative formal institutions are difficult to take an effect on adjusting all kinds of social relations, providing emotional comfort for modern society people, integrating social values, maintaining social order and so on. But at the same time, when administrative formal institutions act on the Mongolian communities from above to below, Mongolian people treat them with their traditional ways of thinking which is from below to above. Thus, the conflicts between the two sets of institutions are unavoidable, which not only hinders the administrative activity from being carried out smoothly, but also affects the process of social stability and orderly development of national autonomous areas. Secondly, As long as animal husbandry, the traditional and objectively basic way of living exists, Mongolian informal institutions such as customs, taboos, ideology, religious beliefs and so on would continue to exist in the long term. Accordingly, its positive or negative impacts on administrative activities will long exist, which is difficult to change. Whether positive or negative, the means, processes and results of the impacts are intangible, subtle and long-lasting. Thirdly, Mongolian informal customs, tattoos, ideology, religious beliefs, etc. not only belong to Mongolian traditional and local knowledge systems, butalso are Mongolianin-born self-management institutions. If used properly, these informal institutions can not only compensate for the inadequacy of government functions, contribute to the harmonious and orderly development of economy and society of Inner Mongolian autonomous region, but also carry forward and further develop Mongolian traditional informal systems, and achieve the double effects of cultural heritage and institutional efficiency. Fourthly, in response to the conflicts between Administrative Formal Institution such as laws and regulations and Mongolian Informal Institutions in administrative activities of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, we should, on one hand, improve Administrative Formal Institutions through changing the concept of administrative management, perfecting laws and regulations, transforming government functions and so on to establish Administrative Formal Institutions of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region with regional characteristics, and ethnic characteristics, integrating them with Mongolian people’s daily life and behaviors, and regulating Mongolian people’s behaviors by its value and requirements. On the other hand, we should follow the inherent law of the generation and evolution of Mongolian Informal Institutions, absorb and utilize those that are harmonious with administrative activities, while guide or even abolish those that conflict with administrative activities. Thus, we can achieve the compatibility of Administrative Formal Institution and the Mongolian Informal Institutions, improve the efficiency of administrative activity of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and achieves its anticipated goal.