Status And Problems Of Citizen Participation In Public Policy Making

From my more long of a time see, promotion citizens participation public policy ofdeveloped has been is democracy concern of core problem, my political economic ofconstantly development and technology of progress, are for citizens participation publicpolicy lay has good of based, citizens participation public policy of developed and Executiveof process is citizens political participation of important performance, is democracy spirit ofmain content, while citizens participation can guarantee public policy of public interestsdirection, faster of strengthened Socialist democracy of construction.Therefore, efficiency inpublic policy formulation and implementation, are important issues of concern to myGovernment and democratic society.Therefore, objective analysis of the current situation ofChinese citizen participation in public policy development and in-depth analysis in adversesituation, the problems and root causes, constantly looking for the best path to improve citizenparticipation in public policy development, not only to motivate.This paper first raised the issue of research, research purpose and significance of theissues, domestic and foreign research status and research methods.Followed by relevantsurvey on the theory of citizen participation in public policy, focused on the content of thepublic policy, mechanisms for citizen participation, citizen participation in public policydevelopment, citizen participation in public policy development;Followed by analysis of thevalue of citizen participation in public policy development, including (1) conducive to thepromotion of public policy in public (2) bridging the "Government failure"(3) increase thecitizens ’ sense of community, promote civil society to build three benefits;Finally elaboratedtheoretical basis of citizen participation are: popular sovereignty theory, theory of new publicservice theory, civil society, and so on.Followed by the status of citizen participation in publicpolicy making in China and existing problems, including citizen participation inpolicy-making major progress has been made, progress is primarily manifested in increasingcitizens ’ participation in policy development awareness scale gradually expanded, citizenparticipation in policy development, citizen participation in policy formulation, as progressive diversification;At the same time, analysis of water price rising citizen participation and citizenparticipation that participatory mechanisms of the current total people problems in the running,including the citizens themselves of flaws and deficiencies in Government.Concludes with aperfect countermeasure of citizen participation in public policy making processes, includingbuilding a civil society response, abandoned the Government concept of selfishness,establishing a service-oriented Government, improve the mechanisms for citizen participation,and so on.