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Research On Honesty Construction Of Local Government In China

Posted on:2015-09-26Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2176330431980869Subject:Public Management
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Good faith, is the foundation of social development. Government’s good faith, as the key to the social credit system construction, will set an example for the development of organizations and individuals’good faith. At present, our country is in the process of social transformation with various social conflicts and problems. Government’s good faith is increasingly a topic of public concern, and especially the good faith of many local governments is causing doubts and criticism.Based on the latest and relevant studies at home and abroad, this paper carries out a research on the basic theories of local governments’good faith, adopting the method of document analysis, comparative analysis and case analysis. The paper studies the characteristics of parties involved in government contracting activities according to the social contract theory, and points out that the imbalance of power and information between the contracting parties has resulted in imbalanced binding forces and thus caused problems during performance. A government of good faith should abide by a government of limited powers, transparency, responsibility and integrity. Lawmaking and institutional design should be strengthened in order to improve the binding force of contracts upon governments.The paper takes the Y city—a typical local government—as an example, summarizes its achievements in good faith construction, and discusses the roots of such problems the Y city government and other local governments have in common as abuse of power for personal gain, lack of information transparency and limits of power, etc.. The author analyzes local government good faith construction from the perspectives of the government itself, the public and social environmental, and comes to the conclusion that the reason for the lack of good faith on the part of the local government is that the lack of self-restraint by the government, and the lack of restraints by the public and the social environment, which causes inadequate limitations of power. Then the author suggests that in order to establish good faith for local governments in China, comprehensive measures should be adopted. Self-restraint mechanism should be improved with better understanding of the current problems, better efficiency, better regulations and stricter supervision. Public scrutiny should be enhanced through improving the public scrutinizing skills and relevant regulations. Moral restraints should be strengthened from the aspects of ethics, values, legal system, and media. Beside, in order to ensure good faith on the part of the government, a punitive system should be established where loss of credibility would be punished.
Keywords/Search Tags:local government, integrity social, contract disciplinary
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