Modern Administrative Process Theory: Rule of Law Concept, Principles, and Systems

Author: Zhan Zhongle
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: Combining the paradigm shift in administrative law triggered by the dramatic changes in Chinese society, the author dynamically examines and analyzes the allocation, operation, and supervision of administrative power from a new perspective of the administrative process. It explores the interaction and mutual influence between the legal status, rights, and obligations of administrative subjects and administrative counterparts in the administrative process. It also investigates the comprehensive and all-round supervision of supervisory subjects over the pre-event, in-event, and post-event phases of administrative subjects exercising administrative power within the framework of the constitution. By taking the administrative process as the starting point, it integrates subjects, actions, value goals, principles, and systems into a unified system for holistic research, highlighting its scientificity and systematic nature. If traditional administrative law research on a specific administrative act only examines a point within the administrative act system, then administrative process research examines a line and chain composed of different points of administrative acts, and further studies the surfaces and volumes based on this. This broadens the research perspective and enriches the content. Starting from the administrative process allows for a more macro perspective in analyzing and researching common issues across different stages or links in the operation of administrative power.