Study On The Problems Of Controlling The Governments’Administrative Cost

With the development of the market economic system and the popularity of market awareness, the concept of cost has become increasingly the basic norm of human behavior. The government wields social public power, undertakes the responsibility of organizing and managing the society, and also consumes resources without doubt. The government administrative cost is attendant with the government and there won’t exist a government without cost in the world. At present, the government administrative cost is not a matter of one country but the major countries of the world. It becomes an important policy idea to control and reduce the government administrative cost all around the world. Since our reform and opening up, the government administrative cost has experienced an irrational growth period, and stayed high so far.Therefore, effective measures must be taken to control the government administration cost, build the frugal government, increase administrative efficiency and safeguard the vital interests of the masses of the people.The disertation bases on the historical background of controlling the government administrative costs, starts from the concept of a government administrative cost, analyses current situation and influencing factors of the government administrative cost, comprehensively compares government administrative cost with the government performance, and finally proposes effective countermeasures to control the cost of government administration. From the introduction to the conclusion, the study is divided into eight chapters and consists five parts of the core content.(1) Clarify the concept, characteristics and composition of government administrative cost. With the introduction of the concept and characteristics of public finance, lead to the concept of administrative costs. Refine the features of unequal expenses and costing difficulties, analyze the composition of the government administrative cost.(2) Analyze the current situation of the government administrative cost. Excessive administrative cost of the general budget expenditures mainly performs at the output of large administrative cost and excessive growth; large elasticity coefficient of administrative cost; irrational structure of administrative cost; prominent problem of waste in administrative cost; inefficient administrative cost; administrative cost basically increases with the reduction of the levels of government, especially at the grassroots government administrative cost; inter-regional differences of administrative cost.(3) Analyze the impact factors of the high cost of government administration. This section mainly parses three aspects of the high cost of government administration, and explores factors of affecting administrative cost; with literature survey, select the affect factors of GDP, fiscal revenue, fiscal expenditure, the price level, the urbanization level. With SPSS software analysis, multiple regression analysis, and goodness of fit test, screening out two key factors that affect the cost of government administration:fiscal expenditure and the urbanization level.(4) Comprehensively evaluate of government administrative cost and government performance. This section is based on Delphi method, AHP and efficiency coefficient method. Take six central provinces for example, comprehensively evaluate administrative cost and performance. To comprehensively evaluate government administrative cost, we introduce four indicators, the administrative cost per person, the proportion of expenditure, government employment and administrative cost growth rate,.The result shows that the best government administrative cost in six central provinces are Anhui province and Jiangxi Province. As the government administrative cost is not the lower the better, the government performance also needs to be considered. Six first-class indicators and twenty eight secondary indicators comprehensively evaluate the government performance. The result shows that the best government performance in six central provinces of2011is Shanxi Province. And finally, the author takes the Y County for example, analyzes its administrative cost through the investigation and research, then carries out the comprehensive evaluation of government administrative cost and government performance. The results demonstrate that the government administrative cost is not the lower the better. The key points of controlling the government administrative cost should expend rationally and normatively.(5) Countermeasures of government administrative cost control. In this part, on the basis of insisting the5principles including "zero tolerance" in government administrative cost control etc., the author proposes two dimensions in government administrative cost control:enhancing the management of fiscal expenditure and rationalization of the government intervention in the urbanization process. This paper is ended by the concrete measures of government administrative cost control:1) improve the capacity of government services, which includes enhancing the quality of the government public servants, promoting the transition of government function, promoting the restructuring of government administration and correcting the preferences of government expend behavior;2) Establish the rigid system of government administrative cost control, which includes accelerating the reformation of the financial budget system, perfecting the supervision system of government administrative cost control, implementing the accountability system for officials and practicing the government performance evaluation system.