The Study On The Campaign-style Administration Of Chinese Government

The administration of China presents a operation and behavior mode of campaign-style administration, which is completely different from institutional administration. In this mode, government departments take a series of measures to resolve an administrative problem or achieve a specific goal by top-down executive administrative mobilization, and improving organizations and the public's enthusiasm and participation, and at the same time, they deal with various administrative matters by the campaign-style focus on short-term treatment. Campaign-style administration, as the major way of daily administrative matters and emergency, infiltrates all aspects and fields of administrative management. It stressed that the treatment of normal administrative functions and various social and economic affairs of government sectors is through the administrative mobilization from government rather than the systematic management. The features of operation and behavior mode on campaign-style administration in China are as below:mandatory, mobilization and secrecy on setting administrative goal, unity and exclusion on administrative objects, campaign-style administrative process and regardless of the cost on administrative results.The operation and behavior mode of campaign-style administration have a long effect on China. Accidental campaign-style administrative can produce certain positive features, it can in the short term to maximize the integration of resources, and as a result quickly eliminate the hazard or make effect. But regular campaign-style administrative has more bad effect:campaign-style administration results the disorder of administrative functions and damages government authority. And it increases administrative costs and reduces the administrative efficiency. It also damages the healthy operation of society and economy and increases instability. At the same time, campaign-style administration fosters speculation and endangers social justice and so on.The operation and behavior mode of campaign-style administration go through all aspects and processes of the executive management:from the static formation mechanism point of view, while the government departments focus on a special treatment, as a result, they often neglect other routine administrative functions and the deterioration of socio-economic problems so that the government departments go into the next round of the special projects cycle. It is to implement management for the social and economic affairs in the cycle of a variety of special projects, other deterioration of the institutional and administrative functions, and the appearance of new administrative crisis. From dynamic operation mechanism point of view, campaign-style administration often experience some stages:compulsory administrative decision-making and top-down administrative mobilization in order to extract the legality of administrative decision, the integration of administration-led consolidation stage and the celebrating evaluation and feedback stage. The mandatory administrative decision is a process for government departments to determine objectives and assign tasks. Top-down administrative mobilization is the process to further clarify the objectives and to get legitimacy for policies. The integration process of administration-led consolidation is achieved by the power integration from government departments and the dominance to community outside the system. The celebrating feedback mechanism is to a large extent the self-recognition of the government departments and the reconstruction of legitimacy.Campaign-style administration is the result of many factors:the applications of administration for one-sided ideology, the impact of political administration, ruling experience of base and bureaucratic concerns, the tradition of ruling by man, lack of system culture and checks and balances of government oversight. These factors shape the operation and the behavior mode of campaign-style administrative of the government while ignore the building of institutionalized administration. Therefore, the reform and development of campaign-style administration is imperative, and the specific reform measures include:innovating party and government relations and clearing government function; strengthening the system and standardizing administrative procedures; promoting citizen awareness and fostering social capital; strengthening media monitoring and improving assessment mechanism. The reform and development of campaign-style administrative needs all parties to push and construct together and the successful transformation of behavior and operation mode of Chinese government will also promote the healthy development of China's society and economy and the construction of administrative system with Chinese characteristics.