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Privatization And Government Regulation Of Public Utility

Posted on:2006-10-25Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L J YangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2166360152485155Subject:Constitution and Administrative Law
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The modern public affairs are becoming numerous and more and more complicated. The government is no longer the only provider of the public articles and service. The limitation of traditional theory of government regulation is prominent day by day in practice. Thereupon many countries begin to review and transform the already existing public administrative operation. Privatization is an important action. Privatization is to transfer the ownership of publicly owned public utilities or the power of management to the private and introduce the real market mechanism. In recent years in our country, relevant laws and regulations, policies are issued one after another. These have created conditions for public utilities privatization. Some places are open or partly open public utilities for private enterprise. Some experiences have been achieved. Under the privatization background, an ineluctable issue for administrative law research is how to choose proper private department participate in getting public administrative affairs.  This text attempts to introduce the existing research results of economics and administration to administrative law and analyses the rationality of public utilities privatization and the government's function should be play in public utilities privatization. Then we will primarily discussion how does government's structure reoriented after de-regulations and How to improve such questions as the structure tool and structure organization.  The first part introduced definition and characteristic of public utilities. Public utilities have some characteristics such as indispensability for People's livelihood, public interests, natural monopoly and rationality. These characteristics will establish the foundation for the following argumentation.  The second part mainly introduced the theoretical foundation of public utilities privatization. With reference to economics and administration, it analyzed the rationality and feasibility of privatization in different aspect from offering of public articles to the transforming of the government functions. It concluded that the producer and provider of public article and service are not exclusive. The government needn't offer some public articles directly. Through an effective, encouraging system, it might encourage other social subjects to be participated in supplying.  The third part has analyzed the relationship between the public utilities privatization and the Government Regulation. By the different degree of the risk to the private department according to the public department, Privatization can be divided into a lot of concrete ways. Both the government's management and the market's management have their pros and cons. In order to remedy the market-based defect, no matter under which kind of privatization form, government's structure must all play a key role.  The fourth part has carried on the discussion to the regulation of government, which is reinvented under privatization era. First, it has made an introduction to the reorientation of government regulation reorientation and diversified structure tools. Secondly, it has proposed the amendment of the current legal system. Then by using some external experience and administrative licensing for reference, it put forward some preliminary suggestions to the application of such regulation tools as market access, price, standard, information, etc. Finally, it propose setting up the independent regulation organization and standardizing its behavior.
Keywords/Search Tags:Public Utility, Privatization, Government Regulation
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