Citizen Participation in Modern Public Administration

Author: Li Guoqiang
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: Reading this book will help readers understand the answers to the following questions:
In the era of globalization, where is public administration heading?
Historically, why have citizens always been absent from the seats of public administration?
How long will the "government solo" of public administration continue?
How can citizens play the new leading role and participate in the management of public affairs?
Government and citizens dancing together may become possible.
This book conducts research from both theoretical construction and institutional design perspectives. The construction of a democratic political model must necessarily include descriptive-explanatory methods and normative methods, that is, propositions about why things are the way they are and propositions about how things should be, involving a balance between the two.
This book focuses on examining the past, present, and future of citizen participation models, studying the main characteristics and strengths of citizen participation models, and hypothesizing the social characteristics that citizen participation may achieve. It also discusses the main arguments. To elaborate on a theoretical model and make an evaluation, it is necessary to appropriately pay attention to the characteristics and internal connections of various theoretical claims, as well as the practicality of participation proposals.