Papers on the formulation, implementation and evaluation of public policies
The government's executive power is an objective requirement to realize the harmonious development of economy and society, and an important condition to build an efficient and responsible government, fully perform the government's management and service functions, and ensure the healthy and rapid economic development. At present, China's economy and society are in an important transition period. Due to the lack of in-depth reform of the government's own system, the functions and responsibilities of some departments are unclear, and they are absent, offside, misplaced, inaction and chaotic, resulting in internal consumption of resources and a vacuum of responsibility. These problems have greatly affected the exertion and implementation of the government's executive power. The specific performance is: 1, the execution without execution, the so-called execution dereliction refers to the state that the administrative subject has the obligation and responsibility to actively implement the administrative act, but can perform but fails to perform or delays the performance of the statutory duties, also known as administrative non-execution. Dereliction of duty is a manifestation of the absence of government functions, and it is a serious dereliction of duty and dereliction of duty. The administrative disputes caused by it have seriously damaged the legitimate rights and interests of citizens, legal persons and other organizations, and also seriously damaged the image of the government. The investigation found that China's current dereliction of duty is mainly manifested in the following aspects: (1) the order is not working. Failure to abide by laws is mainly reflected in the fact that some local governments or departments do not implement orders from higher authorities, national laws and regulations and the party's line, principles and policies. In some places or departments, selfish departmentalism is extremely serious. Starting from their own interests, they "make full use of the laws, regulations, principles and policies promulgated by the state", but turn a deaf ear to those who don't use them, ignore them, and explicitly oppose the policies, that is, do nothing, which leads to the ineffectiveness of the state's laws and policies. A government that wins the trust of the people should be a government with achievements. However, some governments and their departments "can't make orders", which undermines the political discipline of subordinates obeying superiors, makes the orders of superiors impossible to implement, the laws and regulations of the state can't be implemented, and the party's line, principles and policies can't be implemented, which often brings great losses to the collective and the state. (2) evading execution. In the current government work, it is not uncommon to shirk responsibility and evade the implementation of superior orders and national laws and regulations. (3) False execution. Fake execution is duplicity and duplicity, especially when the implemented policy is harmful to one's own rights and interests, one will make an execution plan that is consistent with the superior policy on the surface, but actually contrary to it, and do something opposite. For example, in order to control housing prices, the central government has issued a series of policies. However, in order to resolve the central government's macro-control of housing prices, some local governments have been slow to issue implementation rules, selectively release land stock data, and "implement" the central policy through "air-to-air" meetings, ostensibly implementing macro-control and pushing up housing prices. (4) Passive execution. There is a proverb in China: an iron ox can't push its ass, which means that some governments or departments passively implement central policies and orders from superiors, and the superiors will move when they are urged, and even some are afraid of difficulties and risks, so they can't push it. At present, the overheating problem of "real estate" in many cities is very prominent. The central government was in a hurry, and implemented macro-control many times, sending investigation teams and inspection teams. However, many local governments seem to sit back and relax, and even feel glad for the soaring housing prices. The central government is harsh, and many local governments seem passive in Nuo Nuo, but they are obedient. 2, the implementation of chaos, the implementation of abuse of power, also known as improper execution, that is, abuse of discretion, is the administrative subject within the scope of responsibility and authority in violation of the principle of administrative rationality improper exercise of administrative power. Abuse of power in execution is an administrative decision made by the administrative subject with illegal purpose and motivation, irrelevant consideration and unreasonable content, which is a manifestation of violating the principle of administrative rationality. Some law enforcement departments and law enforcers adopt different standards for different policy target groups (that is, those directly affected by policies) because of their low policy level or poor moral quality, or out of the psychology of seeking rent for personal gain, or because of their incomplete understanding of policies, and improperly use discretion. A steelyard with two stars and a bowl of water is uneven, which seriously violates the principle of fairness and justice of the policy and damages the overall effect of public policy. The specific performance is: (1) choose to execute. Some governments and their departments are out of context, with serious bureaucracy, weak sense of responsibility, failing to perform their duties, and not implementing the policies, instructions, battle plans and laws and regulations of their superiors at all. As executors, lower-level governments often make arbitrary choices on policies formulated by higher-level governments or departments according to the interests of their own regions and departments. Implement it if it is beneficial; If it is unfavorable, give up or implement it flexibly. In the implementation, "hurry when you see the yellow light, and detour when you see the red light." Ignoring the principles of national policies, exploiting policy loopholes from the standpoint of small group rights and interests, and "taking it out of context for our own use" hindered the implementation of policies and systems of higher authorities. (2) distorted execution. Some governments and their departments will consider the interests of their own departments in addition to public and political interests when implementing public policies. On the premise of meeting public and political interests, if the policies implemented are beneficial to them or there is no conflict of interest, they will be actively implemented; If the policy is harmful to oneself, it will be distorted and implemented in disguise. The phenomenon of distorted execution mainly changes the essence of superior orders and national laws and regulations and misinterprets their meanings. This phenomenon is often due to the fact that the policy executors implement according to their own favorable parts, which leads to the real failure of policy implementation and even the performance contrary to the original intention. (3) blind dogma execution. Another manifestation of arbitrariness in implementation is blind and dogmatic implementation of government decisions. Blind dogma execution in China mainly means that some local governments and departments do not grasp and understand the essence and essence of the central government's policies and orders from higher authorities, nor do they combine the actual situation of their own units, departments, regions and industries well, which seems to be implementation, but in fact they are doing destructive things. Blind dogma implementation undermines the seriousness of the central policy and superior orders, making the implementation of the central policy and superior orders a mere formality. At present, let's take a look at what the central policy and superior orders say. As a result, it is impossible to innovate, but it has become an excuse for some governments not to implement it at will; If something goes wrong, don't look for reasons from yourself, but look for loopholes and deficiencies in the central policy and orders from higher authorities. 3, should not be executed and disorderly execution, ultra vires execution ultra vires execution refers to the state administrative organs beyond their "legal authority" and beyond the scope of their functions and powers. According to the law, the power of each administrative subject is limited by certain fields, affairs, levels and authority. If the administrative execution behavior exceeds this limit in the process of operation, it may infringe on the power of other administrative subjects and constitute ultra vires. The core content of ultra vires invalidity is: ultra vires government actions have no legal effect. This principle not only restricts the behavior of government entities, but also restricts their procedural behavior. In reality, the performance of ultra vires execution is: (1) there are prohibitions. In recent years, in some local governments in China, the phenomenon of prohibition has occurred from time to time. "You say yours, I'll do mine", and the confrontational mentality is extremely stubborn. (2) offside execution. At present, the offside phenomenon of some local governments and departments is very serious, which has become one of the main problems that the central government pays attention to in the transformation of government functions. "Taking over" has become the habitual thinking of many administrative law enforcement departments and administrative law enforcement personnel. The key to this evil result is the infinite expansion and lack of restraint of administrative power; Did not establish public service consciousness, did not respect the legal system and rights; We do not regulate and manage matters within our jurisdiction in strict accordance with the provisions of laws, systems and procedures, but arbitrarily expand our power and forget that power is the truth given by the people. (3) Additional execution. At present, additional implementation is also relatively common, which is manifested in the "land policy" formulated by various localities, departments and industries. Although the central government has repeatedly stated that it is not allowed to apportion and collect fees indiscriminately from the people, some localities and departments just refuse to listen and try their best to take out the pockets of the people. 4. The last manifestation of the inefficiency of government execution is the inefficiency of execution. The measure of government's executive power depends not only on input, but also on output and results. In reality, the government often invests a lot in the implementation process, but the effect is very small, resulting in high implementation cost. In reality, the main performance is: (1) implementation is not smooth. The deep reason of the problem is that the concept of official standard leads to the inversion of social subjects. Some organs and cadres only do things that are convenient and beneficial to them from their own point of view, regardless of whether the clients such as enterprises are satisfied or not. There is also an imperfect implementation mechanism and unclear rewards and punishments. The policy is relatively good, and the executors are full of confidence at first, but when they encounter difficulties in implementing public policies, they lose confidence and stop implementing them. This is the reason why there are many "semi-finished projects" in our country at present, because the implementation mechanism is not perfect, the rewards and punishments are not clear, and many government departments are not enthusiastic, perfunctory and passive, and the implementation is weak and not in place. (2) The implementation cost is high. According to the statistics of relevant departments, from 1986 to 2005, the per capita annual administrative expenses in China rose from 20.5 yuan to 498 yuan, an increase of 23 times, while the per capita GDP increased by 14.6 times, and the per capita fiscal revenue and expenditure increased by 12.3 times and 12.7 times respectively. It can be seen that the growth rate of per capita administrative expenses in the past 20 years is obviously faster than that of per capita GDP and fiscal revenue and expenditure. The extraordinary growth of administrative expenses in China is related to government waste, which leads to the government falling into a strange circle. Some experts such as Du Gangjian, a professor at the National School of Administration, said in an interview that "China is the country with the highest administrative cost in the world". Xin Xiangyang, a researcher at the Capital Institute of Social and Economic Development, pointed out: "People often turn a blind eye to similar huge invisible costs." Some local officials are more keen on doing "big articles" and "image projects". The evaluation results of our government's public policy execution are influenced by many aspects. The first is whether the policy objectives are clear; Secondly, whether the contents and results of the implementation activities are clear; Finally, whether there is enough comprehensive and true information. In view of various objective conditions, it is impossible to make a very accurate evaluation of the implementation of public policies in China, but I hope to make a more pertinent evaluation to improve the implementation level of public policies in China.