In The Process Of China's Public Policy Research On The Role Of The Government Organization And Participation Level

In tradition, the government always manifests itself as an entity enforcing power. However, in China, where the political system, the economic system and the entire society is undergoing radical transformation, we always feel power here or there from organizational entities outside government, even feel the government as the "boss" behind them."The government nature" and "the non-government nature" mixes up in this kind of organizational entities. What actual parts are they playing in the broad societal space between government and privates (including individual and enterprise)? In public policy process, what functions are these organizations displaying? Taking the Red Cross as an example, this study, by analyzing the roles and functions played by this quasi-governmental organization in public policy process under its different development phases, puts forward the model of "process-relationship" for analyzing relationships between such organizations and the government. Based on this analysis model and according to differentiated attitudes of the government towards it in its different development phases, this study synthesizes three different types of relationship between them:the quasi-governmental organization as the government’s subordinate, as the government’s cooperator and finally as the government’s assistant. Taking account of different roles played by the Red Cross as quasi-governmental organization in public policy process, this study exposes how the organizations of this kind take part in the policy process. Finally, it seeks to explore how to advance their participation effect in the evolution of the relationship between government and quasi-governmental organizations.