Administrative Law and Administrative Procedure Law (Ministry of Education Higher Vocational and Community College Planning Textbooks)

Author: Hu Jingguang
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Publish Date: 2002-02-28
Features: In the modern sense, administration is a product of the division of state power. Initially, administration was distinguished from legislative, judicial, and other state powers, with the three forming the role of the state and being exercised by different agencies. However, modern state power has become cross-cutting and mixed, with administrative, legislative, and judicial functions all appearing in one agency, i.e., the administrative organ. In other words, the same administrative organ may simultaneously possess administrative, legislative, and judicial functions. Therefore, it is relatively difficult to fully define the meaning of "administration," and it must be understood in specific contexts. Generally speaking, in administrative law, "administration" primarily refers to the organizational, managerial, decision-making, and regulatory activities carried out by state administrative organs, as well as the quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial activities conducted by them.