A Study On The Relationship Between Government And Society In Public Service Of China

System is a common phenomenon in modern civilized society, which not onlyinvolves politics, economy, culture and other areas, but penetrates government,enterprises and institutions, parties and organizations, etc. authority is a symbol ofcommand--obey relationship in the social life, when this relationship derives fromsystem and affects the effectiveness of system, the institutional authority arises. As thecombination of government and society, public service should establish institutionstandards with complete systems and set up common obeyed institution authority toensure the stability of order and the balance of interactivity in public domain.Whether the traditional view of differentiation between government and society orthe popular mode of interactivity between government and society, the theory’sevolution and idea about the relationship between government and society ultimatelyare the reflection and thinking of current situation and development trends. Thegovernment departments are trying to improve adjustment and reform, which aim tomaintain its legal authority and to meet the needs of multiple interests; the socialforces begin to reintegrate and constantly expand, and their activities, condensing andreflecting social members’all kinds of interest orientation, spread in every field ofsocial governance. Consequently, pursuing the balance between government’s rolelocation and social force’s participation in public administration is actually the basisand premise to explore a stable social order. The accomplishment of modern socialorder largely depends on the structure, namely the relationship determined byconstitution, at the same time, the effectively play of constitution functions is decidedby the existence of constitution authority. Therefore, constitution authority is theequilibrium point between government’s role location and social force’s participationin public administration.Through sorting out the history background and innovation path of foreign publicservice system reform and the development process and phase characteristics ofchina’s public service system, there’s no difficulty to find that the dilemma of therelationship between government and society in public service includes the followingaspects: government’s long term monopoly in public service makes the asymmetrybetween power operation and public responsibility; overemphasis on public service’s marketization reform destroys its justice and commonality; the lack ofnon-government departments hinders the public service to make full use of itsadvantages; the uncompleted institutions and the lack of necessary norms andrestrictions. And the reasons that cause this dilemma are as follows: the governmentdepartment pays insufficient attention to institution construction, the public powerlacks sufficient institution restrictions; social force’s limited approval of institutionnorms makes the institution hard to enter effectively into the legal track; the imperfectcontents and procedures in the existing institution and the shortage of inherentconditions to realize institution authority.Thus, the adjustments of the relationship between government and society in theperspective of institution authority need transition of government function in publicservice system, that is, keeping propel the reconfirmation of government publicservice function’s boundary, the readjustment of government public serviceorganization’s structure, the redefinition of government public service right andliability system in the frame of institution; the adjustment also needs to cultivatesocial forces in public service system, which means not only establish institutionstandards to ensure social force’s participation in the creation of public service, butrecruit social force to improve the whole efficiency and level of public service, and toeffectually avoid the passive function and negative influence of public force in publicservice; finally the adjustments will achieve the balance between government andsociety in public service, namely, government’s power in public service system willstandardized operate under institution authority, society’s function in public servicesystem will exert effectively, the institution change in public service system will keepon carrying out stably.