The Spirit Of Public Administration And Its Revelation, Administrative And Moral Construction

Though China has a rapid GDP increase, there are plenty of inharmonious phenomena,such as moral decline, widening gap between the rich and poor, tensions between cadres and masses, severe government corruption and other highlighted social contradictions. Why are there so many problems? How to solve them?What role will the government play in the process? This paper argues that the critical problem is what administrative value concept and service orientation the government sticks to. That is to say we should seek a big breakthrough in the administrative moral. Under the background of governments learning from each other, the paper argues that administrative ethics construction should take the main concept from "the spirit of public administration" as the guidance. This paper is divided into four major sections:The first part is an introduction, which expatiates the origin and significance of the selected topic,and presents the studying situation and dynamics of"the spirit of the public administration"in the world. In this section it also elaborates the concept of"administrative ethics", its character, and the basic task of administrative ethics construction.The second part first analyzes the background and main ideas of Frederickson's writing the spirit of public administration. Based on that, it shows how Frederickson demonstrated his concerns about the future public administration and development of human society.The third part describes the status of the administrative ethics construction in China, and presents the problems of administrative ethics mainly in three aspects: the moral consciousness, moral norms and moral activities. Then it analyzes the reason of the existence of the problems in three aspects: the administrative culture, administrative system and administrative environment,The last part focuses on what we can learn from the spirit of public administration in our administrative construction. It enlightens us that we should stick to social fairness and to publicness in administrative ethics construction. It also implies that we should intensify the public administrative spirit building in executive staff, and learn good experiences from other countries. Above all, we could take a road according with China's national conditions in administrative ethics building.