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The Research On Participation Of Public Interest Group In The Process Of The American Government Decision-making

Posted on:2007-12-22Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S B TianFull Text:PDF
GTID:2166360212459285Subject:Political Theory
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Interest group is a kind of basic social phenomenon, which is a modern democratic politic basic attribute that the citizen's participation and influence government decision-making through the organization way. The Unite States is an interest group politics country whose group constitution, quantity, organization active and influence to the social politics life focus attention on the world. As an important branch to interest group, the US public interest group is an organization to represent the social majority public benefit, whose positively participation has poured into the new vigor for the American political process and the government decision-making. Simultaneously the formulation and the execution of government decision-making not only are limited by the political system, but also is a process which operates by each political power and the social strength interaction. The US public interest group achieve own policy goal and the social majority public's benefit by participation in the government decision-making through all kinds of way, The practical significance of this kind of research, not only is advantageous to deepen understanding of interest group politics, as well as understanding of the American politics and democracy.Because of this, the article investigates participation behavior of the US public interest group in the government decision-making process by carrying on the US public interest group's development vein and from interest group's basic concept, also obtains the thinking from the following several aspects: First, the US public interest group is take realizes the majority society public benefit as the goal organization. Comparing with the general interest group, the US public interest group has some distinctive properties in the widespread social basis, avoid in the certain degree"the free-rider problem"as well as the attraction which takes the public interest as organization goal and so on. Second, because of public interest's deviation in the American government decision-making, it urges the public interest group to rely on own resources, adopt all kinds of way and participate positively in the government decision-making, affect the policy advancement, achieve its public interest policy goal by the greatest degree. In the influence of the American institution environment and own insufficient of the public interest group, the participation the US public interest group in the government decision-making has dual contradiction about the participation method and the benefit goal, the policy goal and the policy result, finally which is disadvantageous to realize the public interest. Therefore, constructing benign interaction relation between the public interest group and the government decision-making, we must not only optimize the system environment and the policy-making mechanism about the participation of the public interest group in the...
Keywords/Search Tags:Interest Group, the US Public Interest Group, the Government Decision-making, Lobbying, Litigation
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