Administrative Accountability Based On The Principal - Agent Theory

After "SARS" in 2003, the Administrative accountability system develops very fast and has achieved a lot of excellent productions both in practical operation and theoretical research. But many aspects need to be perfected due to a short period of accountability system development. Such as our main subject and object of the administrative accountability have information asymmetry between public with the people's congresses and people's congress with government, the relations between communist party with the people's congresses and governments are confused, accountability of the citizens is lukewarm, the congresses representatives lack of accountability. People's congress and its Committee lack of government supervision, and the government face the credit and other problems, but in the practice of administrative accountability have many problem such as:the activities of accountability was chaotic; the scope of accountability was narrow; the subject of accountability have no way to appeal; the resurfacing of government officers undeveloped.The development of commodity economy urge the separating of the ownership and the right of enterprises,and have entrusted Principal-Agent, just as the economic's principle of Principal-Agent, the development of social democratic have broke the concept of the rulers are the owner of the country in the slave and feudal society,in the general public established the idea of a people's sovereignty, administrative accountability come into being in public field. Because in the political and economic field exist the relationship of Principal-Agent, so we can start at the theory of Principal-Agent, bring forward some operate ideas and suggestions, such as enhance the information exchanges between public, congress and the government, reduce the information asymmetric; establish effective mechanisms to encourage, enhance the work enthusiasm of civil servants of the government. Boost the public,congress, democratic parties and the media's sense of responsibility, strengthen the subject's station of accountability. Agency contract should be rationally designed, improve the legal mechanism; boost the internal structure of optimization, reduce the the costs of accountability.