Comparative Research On The Application Of The Right To Information For Citizens

In China, the right of citizens to apply for information is a new concept put forward recent years with the "Open Government Information Regulations". The right to apply the information is citizens’ right to requests a variety of information of administrative body in the course of its grasp the performance of public administration and services disclosure rights.The right to apply the information is the important right of citizens to obtain government information, defend their right and participate in state management. It is an important right for citizens to obtain government information and an important symbol of China formally into the "sunshine government". Exploring and improving the relevant regime is to deepen the objective necessity of the information disclosure system.Administrative law scholar study the government information publicity system for a long time and put forward perfect conception with fruitful results. There are lack of in-depth, comprehensive analysis for the right to apply information, in particular the lack of comparative study of the Western countries. Therefore, the theoretical significance of this paper is through the analysis of the right to apply information of Western countries to draw relevant revelation, and thus depth understanding of the insufficient of our citizens’ right to apply information. Practical significance lies in providing a series of measures for perfection the right to apply information, which is also the author’s focus. This article is divided into three parts:From a legal point of view, this paper defines the information, information rights, the concept and characteristics of the right for citizens to apply the information; then elaborates the development of the right for citizens to information application in our country from a historical perspective. By specific demonstration and comparative research methods, it is started from the specific provisions of the citizens the right to apply the information in United States, Britain, and Japan. Through the comparative of scope, subject and procedures, analyses the advantages and disadvantages of various countries. At last, this paper had in-depth exploration about the right’s problems in our country and put forward my own ideas from a legislative point of view on how to improve on the rights:scientific definition for the scope of the information, set up special position and personal for management and supervision, establish self evaluation system in the internal organs, strengthen the news supervision of public opinion, make information public law.