An Analysis Of The Phenomenon Of Chinese Scholar-officials And Their Impact On Public Decision-making

In recent years,a large number of scholars flock to the government.The phenomenon of scholar-officials has attracted more and more attention.The party and the government select scholar-officials to in the face of the objective requirement of the new situation and challenges.What are the characteristics of scholar-officials? What's the ability of scholarofficials? What are the characteristics of scholar-officials power? What's the impact of scholar-officials on public policy-making? From the existing research,few people have systematically and deeply study on the problem of scholar-officials.Therefore,this paper focusing on the phenomenon of “scholars entering government” in China since reform and opening up.From the aspect of demographic characteristics and education background to study Chinese scholar-officials' group characteristics.At the same time,a comprehensive analysis of the factors that affect the size of power and their professional background characteristics and making suggestion on the selection of scholarly officials.Finally,selecting the typical scholar-officials case with in-depth analysis to explore their impact on public policy-making,especially on the policy agenda.This paper draws the following important conclusions: The quantitative analysis results of scholar-officials in China are basically consistent with the trend of macroanalysis,the number of scholar-officials is increasing,the distribution of disciplines is increasingly balanced,the education is getting higher and the age is getting younger.Scholar-officials have inherent intellectual power.According to the analysis of position power characteristics,the author believes that scholar-officials hold a larger power.This power feature has also led to a series of scholar-officials' corruption.The number of scholar-officials in our country is increasing,but overall,the proportion is still very small.Therefore,in the selection of scholar-officials not only to establish a scientific selection system,but also to strengthen the constraints of their power.The role of scholar-officials is reflected in the impact of public decision-making.Especially have an impact on the policy agenda in the early stages of public policy.The Chinese scholar-officials' public policy innovation ability is strong,they can play an active role in the formulation of public policy in their professional field.