An Exploration Of The Prospect Of Administrative Ethical Legislation In China

There had been thousand years'long tradition of transforming ethical norms to laws in China. Modern administrative ethical legislation,however, originated from Western countries where there had been centuries'long history of rule of law. Administrative ethical legislation in China, instead, is badly short of systematic construction. Against on this background and taking foreign experience of administrative ethical legislation as a reference, this thesis gave a reflection on the status quo of our national administrative ethical legislation, analyzing the current shortage and its sources and offering a predictive proposal for administrative ethical legislation in China. The thesis could be divided into the following four parts:The first part was a summary of administrative ethical legislation. It began with a discussion of the connection between morality and law and of the fact of ethical legalization, based on which offering an elaboration of the necessity and significance of administrative ethical legislation. At last, I defined the substance and extension of administrative ethical legislation.In the second part I mainly introduced the general situation of foreign administrative ethical legislation, with its content and characteristics. With the third part, I analyzed the shortage of Chinese administrative ethical legislation. With a detailed analysis of the existing administrative ethical norms in China, I concluded with an account of the shortage of our national administrative ethical legislation and its sources.In the final part I presented a predictive proposal for our national administrative ethical legislation. I argued that we must be convinced of the necessity of administrative ethical legislation, being prepared for the lawmaking, formulating administrative moral codes timely and promoting administrative ethical legislation systematically.