Study On Interactions Between Official Policy Makers And The Public In Public Policy Making Process

As a management tool, public policy undertakes the important function of regulating the interest relationships between different elements of society, and finally ensures the public interest legitimately. Along with the socialist market economic system established gradually in our country, the consciousness of citizen rights has increasingly awakened.The public is not satisfied with being the mere object of public policy any more; they request to come into the process itself of policy-making so they can express their interest demands and strive for policy resources through interacting with official policy makers.Likewise, policy making official also want to interact with the public so they can collect useful information and feedback. These can help official policy makers improve the quality of public policy and maintain their political legitimacy.This paper is based on the interactions between official policy makers and the public in PanTao village's drinking water policy making process. It discusses the method and obstructive factors of building an optimum interaction model in order to draw some applicable and practical conclusions. In the process of analysis, Political Science, Political Theory, and Management Theory are all utilized. Empirical analysis methods are used to analyze the case and show the actual interactions in the policy making process in our country.This paper is divided into five parts.The first part is the introduction. The second part explains the necessity of interactions between official policy makers and the public. In this second part, public policy and the policy making process are defined, then used to explain the interactions between official policy makers and the public, and the motivation of both sides.The third part describes the case, including the background of PanTao village's drinking water policy, the process of developing this policy, and evaluations from official policy makers and the public of this policy. The fourth part analyzes the case, examining the subjects involved in the interaction, the interaction itself, and the results.Through the analysis, it is possible to explore the flaws in the policy making process in our country. The fifth part suggests characteristics and means of building an optimum interaction model.