The Choice Of The Theory Of Public Responsibility And Public Accountability Mechanisms

The public responsibility theory is coming into being with the development of modern democracy theory. The present society, the public expectation and requirement to the government are becoming higher and higher. Justness, probu, economy efficiency, benefit and so on become the standards to measure a superior or inferior government. Only responsible government can reach these standards. Now many people have dissatisfaction for their own nations and think that the state with low efficiency and low ability to set down the policy has serious corruption and waste problem, administrate not comply with the law and has weak response on public requirement. Emphasize the state public responsibility and set up public responsibility mechanism is the essential approach to solve these problems. In such situation, what is state public responsibility and how to assure to carry out the public responsibility becomes the hot research task for international administration circles.To our state, it is more imminence to emphasize the government public responsibility. The establishment and execution of the reformation and opening policy bring great changes to China society and accelerate the development of our society. And at the same time, it should not be denied that deep social change must bring some negative influence. During the course of transition from plan economic system to market economic system, people's material appetites are expanding infinitely. The old dedication mode economy ethic which forced to comply by society member on the surface under some kinds society pressure has been collapsing in short 10 years and replaces by the merit standard of all with benefit. The government officials lack responsibility for themselves so that it is prevalent using public right to reach self-interest. In addition, the establishment of public policy is one of the most primary approaches to influence society and administer society. As to the science of public policy itself or the extent of public-policy reaching the scheduled target, our government is in the low level to set down the public policy. In order to solve such problems faced to China government, to establish our public responsibility mechanism is an essential approach. To research public responsibility theory gives important realism signification for improving our government public administration level.Based on summarizing public responsibility theory of the western counties, by comparing among vary public responsibilities and outside situation between China and western countries, the paper tries to emphasize the public responsibility of the China government and the officials, and to find out the public responsibility mode needed to set up and improve for the present China government. According to these, apublic responsibility mechanism has been induced to fulfill the public responsibility and establish a simplify, unify, probity, high efficient government.At first the paper starts with the development of the democracy theory, briefly expatiates the historical origin of the public responsibility, and explains the essentiality and necessity of emphasizing the public responsibility and establishing the public responsibility mechanism by concerning with our actual situation. Then, the paper defines and discusses the definition, connotation and inscape of the theory conception of the public responsibility. Thirdly, the paper summarizes five public responsibility modes of western countries such as administration responsibility, law responsibility, politics responsibility, profession responsibility and market responsibility. By expatiating on the characteristics of five public responsibility modes, the paper distinguishes the different characteristics of five public responsibility mechanisms and their conditions in point.When research the topic of the public responsibility, the paper hasn't pure rational discussion, but starts with these theory and concerns with China government actual situation, shows the essentiality of perfecting public responsibility mechanis...