Administrative Accountability System

Building a responsible government not only is a target selection of the government reform and development,but also is an important research subject in the academic circls.China is now in the critical period of the socialist modernization with Chinese Characteristics.The Chinese governments is heavy in such a special historical conditions.How the government through its own building to undertake the task of guiding the government of Chinese society is necessary to look for a breakthrough piont,and the administrative accountability system is a away to build up the responsible government.The first chapter in the article defines the concept of"Responsibility","Government","Responsible Government"and"Administrative accountability system"."Responsibility"includs two basic meanings:One is that responsibility means to fulfill the obligations and responsibilities,the other one is that responsibility means to bear theconsequences because of the non–performance and implementation flaws of the obligation or responsibility ."Government"is organized in accordance with the constitution and laws and the exercise of state executive power bodies and the organization to organize and manage the national administration . Responsible Government is a government which will undertake responsibility and seriously carry out the functions and which is a highly efficient and clean and honest.Administrative accountability is a system which protects the normal and reasonable administrative operation and which is administrative supervision and a form of administrative accountability and combination of the physical specifications and the procedure specification.The theoretical basis of administrative accountability system has ideas of sovereignty in the people and equelity and justice,the principal agent theory,the public choice theory,the transaction cost theory.The functions of administrative accountability system are that it is an important prerequisite for building a responsible government,it is a necessary foundation for building a responsible government protection.The second chapter in the article points out the administrative accountability issues in practice:First,administrative accountability is lack of a unified and clear legal provisions.Second,there is tradition and weak sense of responsibility which officals have no responsiblility to their superiors and their subordinate because of the shortage of the official standard culture and the responsible culture in Chinese society.Third,the responsiblility and authority of officials is vague.Forth,the monitoring mechanisms is existing in name only.Fifth,the information disclosure mechanism is lack.Sixth,the performance evaluation mechanism is not perfect.We will analyze the experience of extraterritorial administrative accountability , find out the difference of the administrative accountability system between China and foreign countries and absorb the advantages of foreign administrative accountability system for china.The thirdchapter in the article puts forward the design to improve Chinese administrative accountability system , including improving the legal system of administrative accountability,optimizing the operating environment for the administrative accountability system and strengthening the administrative accountability system.At first,we make unified administrative accountability laws to improve the legal system of the administrative accountability mains , broaden the scope of accountability,have clear responsibility standards and strict procedures for executive accountability,increase ways to bear the legal responsibility,followed by a sound administrative accountability relief system.Secondly,we will improve the relief system of the administrative accountability.There are two main innovations of this paper:First,the responsibility system of sound and the full implementation of the Government as the major elements of the rule of law , consistent with the rule of law in the country unified theory of responsibility.Second, the legal system for the current lack of accountability,presented a relatively sound and reasonable plan for the relevant national legislation provides theoretical support.Shortcomings of the administrative accountability system is involved in politics,administration,law and other fields of knowledge,his theory is limited,the study is not deep enough.