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Study On The Chief Executive Of Accountability System

Posted on:2011-01-06Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Q L XinFull Text:PDF
GTID:2166360305465308Subject:Constitutional Law Administrative Law
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In western countries of the political life, the accountability of officials is a common phenomenon, it embodies the so-called "responsible government" principle, also reflect the principles of democracy and constitutionalism as an important institutional arrangements. "Responsible government" is a modern political concept, and is a product of the development of modern democratic politics, also is one of the basic ideas of modern democracy. As a basic value concept of the democratic era, it requests the government must respond to the basic requirements of society and the people and to actively to take action to satisfy; the government must actively fulfill its social obligations and responsibilities; it must bear the political, administrative, legal and moral responsibility; the government must accept from the internal and external controls to ensure the fulfillment of responsibility. The establishment of responsible government must be realized from the concept of civic duty and the change from emphasizing the authority of government to emphasize civil rights and government accountability changes, from the unlimited power of government to the limited powers of the government's changes. To build the responsible government, the first and formost task is to clear and strengthen the government's four accountability system, strengthen administrative supervision to guarantee the implementation of government responsibility, continuously improve the civil service sense of responsibility, awareness of administration according to law, and strengthen supervision to chief executive seems significantly. The chief executive has a special status and roles, such as chief executive at this level executive in a dominant position, chief executive has a final say on issues and so on. But there are also some problems existed:the Chief executive of the terms of configuration and rules of the exercise, the law of the chief executive and scope of the specific way are not so clear and specific. These problems lead to, in practice, the accountability of the chief executive of the rights and responsibilities appear unsuited to the problem, what tings do the chief executive responsible for, what circumstance the chief executive under should be accountable and so on. Thus, it is important to establish the chief executive suit to our national conditions, there are some oretical values to the effective promotion of administrative reform and political reform process, and to establishment of a socialist democratic political system of responsible government, and so on. In conclusion, the paper try to discuss on the chief executive's basic concept, theoretical foundation, existing problems and the solution strategy, with a view to further understanding of this issue.
Keywords/Search Tags:accountability, the chief executive, responsibility
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