The Research On Accountability For Local Goverment

In the 21st century, accompanied by the enhanced awareness of democracy, there is a growing concern about the Government; particularly the responsibility of local governments. At present, local governments are still in a state of passive charge. Generally, Local governments have no choice but to take accountability measures to investigate the relevant government and public officers only when there are some major accidents which have attracted serious consequences and have brought about great concern of the people. To achieve the normalization transformation of the local government responsibility, local government accountability system must be established.The process of an informal government action to a formal political system is not easy; obviously it needs to go through setting up, amending and improving. In this process, local government accountability will inevitably face many challenges. In the process improving local government accountability, it will also experience the real dilemma of "imputation", "implement", and "restart". To solve these difficulties, it needs to optimize the political environment and promote the system construction of the accountability from the local governments and related auxiliary systems. This study aims to analyze the problems in the process of local governments'construction of the accountability system, and promote their completing.From the perspective of accountability's creation, this article first explains the basic theory of accountability of the local governments and relevant content; then it also analysis the difficulties encountered in the process of accountability, and how the question is formation; finally, on the basis of the analysis of some foreign countries and Hong Kong's practice of accountability, this paper proposes the methods to improve the local governments's accountability system of China.