On Citizen Participation In Public Policy Formulation

Citizen political participation, which is a classic and hot proposition in the research of the Politics and Administration, occupies a crucial position in the development of Modern Democratic Politics. Whether the public decision-making of government can fully deliver the benefit appeals or effectively achieve the citizen political participation determines the legitimacy, rationality and feasibility of government public decisions. In this sense, citizen political participation is the logical starting point and core content during the process of the public decision-making. The nature of the public decision-making process of modern government is to accept the citizen commission and authorization, to make judgments and choices about public affairs and social development on behalf of the public will. Therefore, the essential requirement of public decision-making process of modern government is to respond to the public will and request, to enhance interactive communication with citizen and to ensure the effective political participation of citizen in decision-making.In recent years, the foundation of the citizen political participation continues to enlarge, the public's enthusiasm for political participation is increasing day by day. In the practical level variety of democratic equipments are carrying out in full swing. The level and scope of Citizen political participation shows a trend of gradual improvement and expansion, the trends of China's movement on this issue is widely concern at home and abroad.The study takes citizen political participation in government public decision-making, which has the realistic meaning, as the subject. With an eye to how to solve the relationship between government and citizens and how to formulate public policy on behalf of citizens will? Take"Governance Theory"as the theoretical tools and use document analysis and comparative analysis methods. By analyzing the citizen political participation in decision-making process, discussing the present situation and difficulties of citizen participation, the study try to establish an innovative public policy of citizen political participation in the multi-dimensional model diagram, and try to discuss the basic ideas of effective citizen political participation from three dimensions: system, culture and social structure.