New Perspectives on Responsible Government

Author: Jiang Jinsong
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: Responsible government, as a constitutional principle, emerged in modern times, and its theory and practice have become relatively mature in contemporary Western countries. Establishing a responsible government is a key aspect of China's political system reform. This book conducts a comparative study of the responsible government systems and practices under the three major Western political systems—fusion of powers, separation of powers, and supervision-assurance-arbitration. It identifies the main flaws of traditional responsible government theory, proposes its own new theory of responsible government, and, based on this theory, offers specific improvement plans for the current theoretical and practical issues of responsible government in China.