Reinforcing local governance has been a new focus of Chinese political reform. While the intellectual and institutional legacies of administrative law reform proposed by the central government have set tones of the overall reforms, local experimentalism constituted the main practice in the past years and is also being transformed into a new order of China‘s...
Reforming Politics or Refining Policies: A China Perspective
China has been demanding policymaking accountability since the late 1990s. By continuously reforming its policymaking procedure and establishing various “Americanized“ mechanisms, China adopted procedures that are quite similar to the western democracies in administrative policymaking, such as participation, evaluation and transparency. This paper characterizes China‘s reform as an initiative to “democratize“ China‘s executive administrative decision-making...
Public Participation in Administrative Decision-Making: A Northwestern China Story
Public participation in administrative decision-making is one of the basic avenues to realize publicans‘ rights. It is also the essence of publican mastering their own affairs. In recent years, China has carried on a valuable practice and exploration in public participation in the administrative decision. However, there still exist some problems: First, the main body...
Transparency and Participation in Courtroom: A Guangzhou Story
Looking at the Chinese judiciary‘s role in expanding governmental transparency the past five years, this paper observed the expanded governmental transparency in Guangzhou city in forms of both transparency and participation. It argues that while the failure and success still mix, Chinese courts have successfully expanded powers over administrative agencies‘ decision-making. The political talent judge...