Government Action In Structural Social Crisis

The present world is changing with each passing day, and is threatened by growing crisisas well. China, during its transitional period, is even more the heart of the crisis-whirlpool.Crisis management, especially the public crisis management has been one of the centralsubjects for the government to rule and a due implication for our party to improve its rulingability. Government action is a collection of all the administrative actions adopted by thegovernment. Even though it sounds more like a practical phrase but an academic term, itchance to reflect the blank space of study in this field. Based on the predecessors'study, thisgraduation thesis puts forth this basic subject, expounding that the essence of governmentaction is the manipulation of administrative authority. At the same time, the thesis seizestightly the fundamental elements of government action—power and responsibility, and triesto investigate the government's action in crisis administration on paralleling its authority andresponsibility.There exist all kinds of crisis, but structural social crisis is taken as the kernel in thisthesis. The phrase of structural social crisis is brought up through referencing on functionalstructuralism and system theory. In the thesis, it indicates that structural social crisis which ischaracterized with its wild influence, intensive destruction and of being unforeseeable, is aspecial one caused by the mal-position of social structure and functions of social system, andthe ultimate way to dissolve the crisis is to reform the systems. From the visual angle ofpower and responsibility, the thesis brings up "six elements"for government action, andreasons out progressively the acting mode of structural social crisis. Under the framework ofsuch a mode, the thesis makes a thorough and deep analysis on government action,specifically from the process of crisis management—portending period, processing periodand reviving period. Emphasis is respectively put on the administrative concept of action,information, institutions, resources and system construction in the portending period; thepolicy-decision, execution, communication and feedback in the processing period; and thesummarization and innovation undertaken by the government both in the basic and upperlevel in the reviving period. As a type of common social conflict between the people and akind of crisis unable to be eradicated in the process and development of social reform,structural social crisis is valuable in helping us draw some regular patterns from thegovernment action in the process of the administration, keep the stability and unity of Chinaand a harmonious society during the transitional period and improve our party's rulingability.