A Study On The Relationship Alienation Between Officials And Business Owners From The Perspective Of Conflicts Of Interest

The modern economic society is highly developed,in which various interest relationships are interwoven into a complex network system,and the relationship between officials and business owners is an important part of it.With the successive fall of a large number of high-ranking provincial and ministerial in our country,the cases of collusion and power-for-money deal between officials and business owners derived from abnormal officials and business owners relations have been exposed constantly.The alienation phenomenon of official and commercial relations has been characterized by complication and generalization in society.It has not only hindered title normal operation of market economy,but also destroyed the political environment of our country,and caused serious adverse effects on the society.Conflict of interest,as a concept of public management,is introduced into China by western countries and widely used in the field of anti-corruption.The theory and practice of public management shows that the key to properly dealing with the relationship between officials and business owners lies in solving conflicts of interest.A careful study of the cases of alienation of the relationship between officials and business ovwners in China shows that every ousted official is involved in the issue of the conflict of interest.In order to solve the problem from the source,we must take the prevention of the conflicts of interest as the starting point,building a "firewall" between the private interest of government officials and the public interest,and blocking the possible channels forleaders to use their power to seek personal gain.This paper has selected 140 ousted provincial and ministerial officials to set up a case base and rely on the viewpoint of preventing the conflicts of interest.Using the methods of literature research,case analysis and statistical analysis,this paper researched on the types,characteristics and causes of alienation of the relationship between officials and business owners,summarized rules and put forward countermeasures and suggestions for the construction of good relationship between officials and business owners.This paper consists of five parts.The first part is the introduction,which discusses the research background,research significanceand combs relevant theories both at home and abroad,introducing research methods,writing framework and innovation of the paper.The second part is the theoretical interpretation of the relationship between officials and business owners from the perspective of conflict of interest,summarizing the meaning,classification and harm of conflict of interest,and discussing the connotation of the relationship between officials and business owners and the theoretical basis of relevant research.The third part is the research scheme design and data analysis.Collate and screen the collected cases,establish the database,design the dimension of analysis,and carry out the empirical analysis.The fourth part is conclusion and discussion.Based on the results of data analysis,this paper summarizes the types and characteristics of the alienation phenomenon between officials and business owners.and probes into the causes of alienation of the relationship between officials and business owners from subjectively and objectively from the perspective of conflict of interest.The fifth part is the discussion on measures of building good relationship between officials and business owners from the angle of conflict of interest.On the basis of the previous statistical analysis and cause analysis,this paper puts forward effective measures to build a benign relationship between officials and business owners from the perspective of "three lists" and "one platform".The contributions of this essay are:firstly,the research has considered the perspective of interest conflicts.The fourth Plenary Session of the 17th CPC Central Committee introduced the concept of 'interest conflicts' at the very first time in China,and the domestic researches are barely focused on 'interest conflicts' and official-business relationships.This essay conducted quantitative research from the perspective of 'interest conflicts'.which is contributed to the research of political-business relationship from a new level.Secondly,the methodology highlighted the proper combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches.The essay is different from previous research which only focus on qualitative study,but combined both of quantitative and qualitative analysis for 140 official-business relationships cases by building case base tertiary level analysis dimension and SPSS statistics analysis,concluded the alienation types,features and mechanism of domestic official-business relationships.Thus,we analysis the subjective and objective reasons of official-business relationships alienation in a systematic and deeper level.Thirdly,we suggested some feasible and effective strategies for the issue.The essay shows that 'authority list' system is necessary to construct a health official-business relationship to eliminate the chance of authority abuse.Promoting 'responsibility list' will supervise the behaviors of powerful officials,and 'negative list' will eliminate the opportunity for the collusion of officials and businessmen,to establish a platform for information disclosure and to build a clean official-business relationship.