Public Participation In Public Policy

With the perfection of market economy system and improvement of political democracy, public policy has been becoming a main channel public administration. Meanwhile, the request of public participating the process of policy to guarantee the legal interests is more and more urgent. It reflects the reinforcement of public consciousness and improvement of democratic training. On the other hand, it brings challenges to our government institution.The public participating the process of policy is an important way to express individual preference and also a symbol of the awareness of self?consciousness. From the essence of public policy, the author analyses the uncertainty of the policy environment, the Limited Rationality and Opportunism Behavior Tendency of the main body of the policy, which results in the public participation. Based on the statement of necessity of public participation, the paper illuminates the motivation, function and the dilemma of the public participation. At last corresponding institutional innovation is introduced to safeguard the rights of the public participation.The characteristic of the issue is to take public participation as the topic. It is the first time to combine the transaction cost economic with the thought of the people sovereignty to study the action of public participation.