Comment On The Influence Of Interest Group Over Public Policy Of Our Country

As the Indispensable part of the Political system, interest group has existed for many years with democracy. With the innovation of socialism market economy, that society stratifies and the pattern of interests becomes divided make the china society transfer from oneness to diversity. The outstanding phenomena of society transform is that the interest structure of the whole society is divided and recombined, the old social interests structure has been broken ,the new interest colony and class have came into being gradually and formed the specific"interest group". The compete game between interest groups and the policy influence has appeared, but it is not good for social harmony and stability, so with the development of interest group, compared with China's actual conditions, studying interest group theory again is very significant. By western political science theory, policy process is a complicated dynamic process. The development of interest group definitely affects the public policy. With the development of civil society, many different interest groups impose pressure on policy process, such as: setting down public policy, carrying on public policy. There are different ways for interest group to affect public policy and their influence is related to the resource they handled and their station in the social structure. The interest groups realize their aim by social connection network, public consensus, persuading, resorting to expert group. That interest group affects public policy will bring politic system a series of result. For one thing, it ensures the democratization of public policy process, boost the scientizing of public policy process and intensify supervision about drawing up and implementing public policy by government; for another, it will probably bring about latent negative influence to political system. Such as: be harmful to the social equity and democratic politics, misguide public policy, reduce government's politics authority , damage its legitimacy basis especially in the society where unbalance compete between interest group fill. So establishing fair benefit balance mechanism, setting up Legal institutions, strengthening ability build of government, such kind of measures are beneficial to reducing the negative influence of public policy and enlarging its good influence for interest group.