Study On The American Civil Servant Property Declaration System And Its Revelation To Our Country

Civil servant property declaration system requires specific civil servant to the relevant authorities to declare the property of himself and his family within a certain range which shall be subjected to the supervision and inspection. The system has played an important role for the prevention and punishment of civil servants’ corruption, so it is called the “sunshine act”. America constructs the civil servant property declaration system is early in the world and its system is mature and achieved some experience. To analyze and discuss the American civil servant property declaration system and then draw lessons from it has important theoretical and practical significance in perfecting our country relevant system.Firstly, the paper analyzes the American civil servant property declaration system in general. Defined the American civil servant property declaration system from the perspective of jurisprudence and introduce its theory source. The theory source of the American civil servant property declaration system has the people’s sovereignty theory, the power restriction theory and the theory of public interest priority. Secondly, the paper analyzes the American civil servant property declaration system’s history、content and effect. The American civil servant property declaration system has development more than one hundred years, but the system is explored in the 1950 s formaliy and determined its final shape until the enaction of < Ethics in Government > in 1978. The development of the American civil servant property declaration system can be divided into three stages: the dawning period(1900s-1940s), the Brewing and formation period(1950s-1970s) and the perfect and development period(1980s up to now). The American civil servant property declaration system is comprehensive and reasonable, it can effectively prevent and punish the corrupt behavior of civil servants without wasting a lot of man power and material resources. The American civil servant property declaration system promotes the building of the clean government, improves the government’s efficiency, strengthens the government’s authority and promotes the development of democratic politics. Finally, the paper summarizes the experience of the American civil servant property declaration system and analyzes the deficiency of the civil servants property declaration system in our country. So we can reconstruct our country’s civil servant property declaration system from the following aspects: establish the system of civil servants property declaration system in legal form; clear the scope of subject; expand the scope of object; establish the independent and authority institution and construct the legal responsibility system.