Local Academy Of Social Sciences Where The Path Of Reform Options

The first Local Academy of Social Sciences was established in 1958. Since then Local Academy of Social Sciences has been a very important part of our country social sciences research, and has played positive role in many fields, such as increasing the level of local district social sciences research, providing government major policies consultation, promoting government policies to achieve scientific and democratic. After entering the new era, the traditional research system of Local Academy of Social Sciences is unable to meet the demands of social and economical development.These problems are mainly reflected in, government and public institutions never separating, becoming seriously bureaucratic organizations, lacking independence and publicity, research targeting fuzzily, subjects setting unreasonable, research management tools simple, lacking effective incentive and restraint mechanisms, R & D resource allocation efficiency no high. To solve these problems, Local Academy of Social Sciences has carried out a lot of useful reform exploration, combining the institutions reform. The explorations include that changing the R & D-oriented and emphasizing on application study, proposing building a new socialist Think Tank, re-adjusting the layout of subjects and optimizing the allocation of resources, research management systems innovating, personnel appointment system, job posts identified, performance pay system. Through those reforms, Local Academy of Social Sciences has increased the independence and publicity, and improved the efficiency of research input-output. However, the institutional factors, which constraint the long-term development at a deeper level, have not been a fundamental changed. So, we need to deepen the reform of Local Academy of Social Sciences.By beginning with describing the concept of West nation Think Tank, this article summarizes the modern Think Tank system characteristics and governance model. Such as keeping independence and non-profit, adopting the project in research management system, competitive and efficient employment mechanism, board of directors governance structure. Through studying the success of modern Think Tank and using the Principal-agent theory and Governance theory, the author puts forward the reform proposals, which include 1)innovating institutions management system, and effectively enhancing the autonomy and publicity of Local Academy of Social Sciences; 2) building a scientific and rational and efficient public corporate governance structure;3)improving the effectiveness of the organization resource allocation, and creating the talents competition mechanism; 4)strengthening the performance evaluation system, and improving the supervision and management mechanism; 5) establishing a open and interactive operating mechanism, and improving itself influence。...