The Influence Of Public Opinion On Public Policy

In recent years, internet public opinion, a concomitant of Chinese internet and political development, has involved in many parts of social issues and has been concerned by the people from all walks of life. In politics and administration internet public opinion is define as a citizen political attitude on internet. The study in this field has not been matured yet. The existing literatures are almost around the analyses of single case on microscopic view and macroscopic, comprehensive, systematic analyses on internet public opinion are in the initial stage. The purpose of the thesis tries to analyze internet public opinion in a general, macroscopic way and give some measures and suggestions to solve the finding problems.The essence of influence from internet public opinion on policies is a kind of public participation. A widely acceptable definition of public participation in academics is a citizen activity which can influence public policies and citizen’s lives. The influence of internet public opinion on the policies fits this concept. Because public participation theory is a hot and mature subject in worldwide, it can provide a powerful theoretical support and effective tool for the research of internet public opinion.In addition, the highly concerns on internet public opinion events make the domestic scholars to try to collect the information of various internet public opinion events and form some corresponding data bases and relative public opinion reports. Because of the improvement on these basic work, the analysis of internet public opinion from statistical methods turns into possible.Considering the accessibility, integrity and formation uniformity of various reports, the internet public opinion events date base on people.com.cn is selected as research objective and the events related in public policy are screened as the samples of the research. These samples are separated from two different views which are the field of the policy that event is involved and the policy stage when event happens. The independent variable is defined as whether the opinion preference is correspondent to the policy outcome or not. By this way, the features of influence from public opinion are found. The data information are concluded from the number and its rate of separated events and their correspondence, the correlation between dependent and independent variables. The conclusions are public opinion, the greatest impact on the livelihood class policy, political legal and economic class policy is weak; public opinion and multiple events at the policy formulation stage few runtime; public opinion incidents in which the earlier stages of the policy process, policy and public opinion, the results of the higher preference for consistency, etc. Conclusion.Then, the article discussed the reasons behind the data conclusion response data and conclusion. The reasons are:the influence of public opinion may be associated with policy involves the interests of the group; Specialized policy limits the Internet participation; Cost of change of policy may be increased with the policy process. Data also reflects some existing problems, including:citizen network participation lack of formal channels; Existing network involved in early is little; Policy process transparency is not high.Finally, perfect the construction of citizen network participation according tothe problems. Policies of the people’s livelihood, the attempt to establish network citizen groups to participate negotiation; Specialized policy making, improve the advisory committee; The timing of the citizen participation in the policy process in advance; Enhance participation in transparency; Institutionalized citizen network participation.