Coupling Civil Servants, Government And Society: A System's Theory Based On Perspective Of Government Effectiveness Construction

With the development of administration modernization and politicsdemocratization, 'government effectiveness' becomes increasingly active in theory aswell as practice. As a comprehensive evaluation index, it embodies overall theefficiency and performance as well as the executive amid of government and civilservants in the light of management object. When they are working to achieve theobject of management. It covers wide area ranging from economy, effectiveness,quality, to customer's satisfaction, availability and fairness, etc, which attaches greatimportance on unification of quality and quantity, effectiveness and value, motive andmeans, process and outcome. 'Effectiveness construction' has always been thepursuing goal government since it was established. And, it is also the core issue ofmodern government administration.Further, it is an indispensable demand to build an'honest, diligent, pragmatic and efficient' government and improve regionalenvironment for economic development. Many politicians and scholars on publicadministration research probe into government effectiveness constructioninstructively from various viewpoints. Market oriented theory and practice of westernnew public management provides positive experience and reference for ourgovernment effectiveness construction. Its mode, idea, technique and method becomeprevailing and exert a subtle influence on government institution. The following paper,by reviewing and collecting Wenzhou's 'effectiveness revolution', explores itsemerging background, detailed measure, operation mechanism and social effect. Thispaper points out that Wenzhou's 'effectiveness revolution' fits new publicmanagement as well as responses the require of System's theory. An idea updating ofcivil servants is the logical start, and government performance management is theinterior mechanism, while social public participation is the exterior environment.Enlightened by the Wenzhou' case, the article illustrates from the perspective ofsystem's theory's that government effectiveness construction is a systematic project,while civil servants, government and society are three different level systematic mainbodies. Civil servants system is the subsystem of government system, while socialsystem is government system's exterior environment. Whereas system developmenthas its interior logic, government effectiveness construction can be reached byharmony, cooperation and mutual match of these three systems. By proceeding toanalyze, refine, and conclude, the article build system theory on governmenteffectiveness construction, highlights that three systems be constructed at the sametime and match each other, which attach importance on the improvement of thediathesis of civil servants, the perfect of government management, and thedevelopment of the social public support.