Research On The Improvement Of Government Governance By Participatory Budget

Since the 21 st century, as China’s industrialization and urbanization speeds up, series of changes have taken place in population pattern and industrial structure. However, local government`s efficiency use of funds is usually not high, democracy development level of all parts of the country is also varied, which seriously restricts the government role and market system. An efficient and democratic government operation system is indispensable to the sustainable development of the whole society,and it is urgent to improve the governance of local government. Participatory budget is put forward as a tool to realize the government governance nowadays. Most points of view are that it is the specific way of citizen’s political participation and the concrete mean to improve local government`s efficiency use of funds. But is participatory budget implemented can bring governance? What aspects of government governance can be influenced by participatory budgeting?The execution of participative budgeting in many areas both home and abroad has gain a good reputation. In a deeper level, if it is proved both theoretically and practically that the participative budgeting may bring governance effect, for areas with less governance effect, what conditions do they lack? This Paper will discuss how the participative budgeting improves the governance level of the local government, present the conditions necessary for the participative budgeting to bring governance effect, and thus put forward some suggestions for more local basic-level governments who hope to realize governance effect with participative budgeting.Based on the execution mechanism and performance of the participative budgeting, this Paper discusses whether the participative budgeting will bring in governance effect. The execution mechanism of participative budgeting includes the participant and the participation mode. Combined with the Yanjin Case and the Wenling Case, this Paper evaluates and analyzes whether the execution mechanism of participative budgeting will improve the governance by the method of comparative analysis. The evaluation and analysis of participative budgeting result is more complicated. On the basis of “Governance Evaluation Framework in China”, this Paper comes up with evaluation indexes which are more conformable to the logic presented herein. By the indexes, the degree of satisfaction on letter petition system, the openness of governmental affairs, the employment and the social security cause are inspected specifically to determine whether the execution result of the participative budgeting could improve governance. Based on the above analysis, the conditions required for participative budgeting to improve governance are gradually explicit, including well-defined regulations, and clear political will of the decision-makers in the governments. The conclusion and the expectation are presented at last. In addition, in terms of cases, Wenling is selected to stand for the developed area and Yanjin for the less developed area, which offer a more abundant and more complete explanation for the final conclusion of the Paper. By the analysis in the Paper, a helpful reference to gradually generalize the participative budgeting in counties and districts, and a realistic basis and policy suggestion for the governance transformation of local government are provided, posing a strong and realistic instructive significance.