Western Public Administration Reform, Market Orientation Questioned

Since the seventies of the 20th century, many western countries have raised a movement of public administration reform. This movement regards market-based as the essential feature. It praises the market mechanism as the mythology which can give a new lease of life to the government. It introduces the competition mechanism of the market to the government department in order to overcome financial crisis, trust crisis and legitimacy crisis that the government faces. This text is from five respects, such as administrative subject, administrative value, administrative responsibility, the operation ways of market-based orientation , validity of the reform , etc ..It queries the market-based orientation of the public administrative reform of the west and has carried on detailed demonstration to this. It does not think this reform as effectual as what its theory advocate said, on the contrary it may bring a disappearance of administrative value and administrative responsibility, at the same time reduce the government's legitimacy and increase total cost that the society operates and so on. This text alarms the public administration reform of our country through such extensive query.