Online Consultation and the Nature of Citizen Feedback in Chinese Policymaking
One of the enduring questions about Chinese politics concerns the ability of the Chinese Communist Party to maintain its monopoly on power in the face of significant economic,political,and social challenges.As part of its ongoing effort to cultivate popular support,the party has in recent years initiated a number of reforms,such as public discussions of budgetary priorities and adoption of social welfare benefits and sustainable energy policies,that are oriented toward improving governance and the provision of public goods (Dickson 2011,Fishkin et al.2010,Saich 2007).A particularly salient instrument of governance reform is online consultation,a process through which citizens are provided with opportunities to offer feedback on proposed government policies.In 2012,for example,it was widely reported that citizen comments on draft revisions to China”s criminal procedure law prompted the central government to relax some of the proposal”s most stringent provisions regarding undisclosed detention of criminal suspects (Ford 2012).
Steven J.Balla
Public Policy and Public Administration, and International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington, DC
国内会议
北京
英文
5-6
2012-08-07（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）