Citizen Participation In Anti - Corruption Citizens 'Right To Know And Officials' Conflict And Coordination Of Privacy

Since the 18th CPC National Congress, China has spared no effort to anti-corruption. In the supervision system mentioned in the 18th National Congress Report, which is composed of law, media and civilian both inside and outside of the Party, citizen participation is quoted as a must. Chinese citizen has never been in such an active attitude toward anti-corruption, and the new anti-corruption mode has come into being and proved to be efficient with high technology such as microblog. Anti-corruption has already been a top task at the present. It’s now to encourage citizen to participate in instead of over-emphasizing the less functional power anti-corruption, as turns out to be a new way of the present anti-corruption.Citizen’s Right to Know is the efficient way for citizen to participate in anti-corruption and public right supervision. Inevitably there is negative phenomenon during the citizen’s participation. Citizen right of privacy is not to be violated. It is against the law to spy personal information, to harass personal activities, to intrude personal space or to leak personal secret out. However in recent years, some officials with public power have used Personal Privacy Right as a shield for their corruption. Consequently, conflict and coordination between Citizen’s Right to Know and Personal Privacy Right should be properly settled, as demands officials take the obligation to most guarantee the achievement of constitutional right of citizen participation in anti-corruption.The thesis is divided into four parts. Part Ⅰ is the significance and method of the thesis research. From the macro perspective, the present research situation both domestic and abroad is introduced, which leads to the thesis research direction. Part Ⅱ analyzes the internal causes of the conflict between Citizen’s Right to Know and officials’ Personal Privacy Right during the process of citizen’s anti-corruption participation.Part Ⅲ is the combing analysis on the research situation of Citizen’s Right to Know and officials’ Personal Privacy Right, starting with basic theory and combining citizen’s participation in anti-corruption cases. With the contextual analysis of the chosen cases, a trial to find out the solution to the conflict between Citizen’s Right to Know and officials’ Personal Privacy Right.Part Ⅳ is the compromise balanced on interests as to protect both Citizen’s Right to Know and officials’ Personal Privacy Right. This requires reason and ration to find out principles, rules and specific standards to solve the conflicts in citizen’s anti-corruption participation.The basic task of academic paper is to reveal a new horizon to the research and discovery of the already existed problems. Yet without effort on details, the thesis would have left its original purpose. The innovation of this thesis is that, although there are few precedent research about Citizen’s Right to Know in anti-corruption participation and officials’ Personal Privacy Right—even some, mainly focusing on microblog anti-corruption—a macro perspective analysis about basic right of citizen’s anti-corruption participation is discussed, so as to explore a rational compromising way to deal with the conflict and coordination between Citizen’s Right to Know and officials’ Personal Privacy Right during citizen’s anti-corruption participation.