Study On Administrative Costs Of Local Government

Administrative costs continue to rise is the world trend of administrative development in general, but also countries in the world of public administration have to face a common topic, the effective control of administrative costs are bound to select the target of government reform. The first time in our country, "reducing administrative costs" as an independent concept into the government work report delivered at the Party Congress report in, and the administrative costs of the party and the government administrative system reform as an important future task. Since then, the party's 17 major reports, once again enlightening General Secretary Hu Jintao pointed out that "to streamline and standardize the rules of procedure of the coordination of various institutions and their offices, reduce the administrative level, lower administrative costs and strive to resolve duplication, overlapping responsibilities, political than many problems. " This shows that our government has already attracted the administrative costs of the CPC Central Committee attaches great importance to our country but also has become the focus of the academic community to explore intense.In this paper, the cost and administrative costs of the concept and features a detailed definition and description, and then the administrative costs of the Jilin Provincial Government issue as a full analysis of the focus, which is intended Seeing to analyze the current status of the administrative costs of local governments in China, issues and problem analysis on the causes and to propose a solution. From the aggregate analysis, we can see that between 1995-2008 the Jilin Provincial Government and the country's overall administrative costs showed a rising trend. And there are several issues:(1) The high rate of financial support, job growth in consumption rigid; (2) Jilin Provincial Government agencies large and high administrative operating costs; (3) the administrative costs of the Jilin Provincial Government increasingly low input-output efficiency, administrative efficiency is not high; (4) the administrative costs of the Jilin Provincial Government Structure Configuration irrational. (5) The local government administrative costs caused by rent seeking faster growth. The reasons are: (1)Jilin Provincial Government agencies lack the concept of administrative costs; (2) Local Government Budget System of the irrational; (3) The administrative law enforcement system is incomplete, the lack of government action mechanism; (4) The local government decision-making errors. Therefore, we should actively adopt measures to effectively deal with the following: (1) to suitably control the size of government agencies to establish appropriate type government; (2) increase the administrative costs of the concept of government agencies; (3) specification of local government budget system; (4) to build a powerful network monitoring, containment of local government rent-seeking behavior; (5) establish a efficient decision-making system, and improve the quality of public officails.