Citizen Participation In Local Government Decision-making Research

The local government is an important part in the system of the government in China, it in promoting local economic development, maintain social stability in the process of the place, playing the role of a mainstay. Public decision-making is the local government provide public services and implementation of the management of the dominant way, it is not only the local government public management activities of the starting point, and local government to fulfill the functions of the foundation, through the whole course of the activities of local government administration. Public decision-making process have the citizen participation, whether to conform to the social public interest demand, decision making, the public decision whether it has the public, legitimacy and feasibility of implementation. In this sense, the participation of citizens in the government public decision-making is the logical starting point of democratic administration and the core content. At present, the local governments in China in the process of making the participation of citizens in serious lack of local government in public decision-making of the public, legitimacy and feasibility insufficient. This article attempts to guangzhou panyu waste incineration events as example to local governments in the value of the citizen participation in decision-making and the existing problems in depth analysis, local government decision to perfect the citizen participation in and puts forward the countermeasures.The structure of this paper is composed by the following six parts:The first part, Introduction, including the significance of the article, the literature review, research ideas and methods.The second part, define the relevant concepts and theories, in order to lay the basis for argument in this article.The third part, The local government decision-making of the citizen participating in the development value and the analysis of the current situation. Local government decision-making of the citizen participating in the value is mainly manifested in:helps to improve the local government decision-making legitimacy, facilitate high local government decision-making more scientific, helps to promote local government decision-making, execution of local government to help overcome the bounded rationality. Since the reform and opening, in many factors, pushed by the local governments in China the citizen participation in decision-making has achieved great development, its specific displays in:the participation of citizens in the autonomy of improved, the citizen participation was expanded, the participation of citizens in the way are increasingly rich, citizens of the increasingly rise in network.The fourth part, To panyu waste incineration events are reviewed, and believe that the events from essentially reflect the local government decision-making and the game between public opinion, reflection of the present stage of local government's decision in citizens of the loss of resistance. And combined with case analysis in the local government decision-making citizens to participate in, the existing problems of the concrete in the following aspects:the local government absorb citizen participation consciousness, local governments lack of management citizen participation in decision-making skills, local government citizen participation mechanism imperfect.The fifth part, According to the local government decision-making citizens to participate in existing problems, this paper puts forward the improving the local government decision-making of the citizen participating in the countermeasures. Firstly, building a service-oriented government, namely the change of the traditional ruling concept, and reshape the relationship between government and citizen, the innovation of government public decision-making culture. Secondly, and improve the management the participation of citizens in skills, which determine the scope of the citizen participation, identify the type of related citizens, determine the strength of the citizen participation, choose the participation of citizens in time and form. Finally, perfect the citizen participation in government decision-making mechanism. The supervision of the National People's Congress is increasing function, improve the government decision-making of the hearing system, public system and expert consultation system.Part VI, Conclusion.