The Consultative Consumer Participation In The Hearing Of The Prices Of Public Utilities Under The Democratic Vision

As a main form that can influence government decisions on price, Price Hearing can helped to strengthen citizen participation and supervision in government price-making, to insure the procedures and results of government's price decision-making fairer. With"The People's Republic of China Price Law"determined the price hearing system in law, there are various types of price hearing held in China, and has achieved some success, but, it is also have some extremely problem , so the credibility of price hearing decreased, and seriously hindered the development of the system itself. This article from the realities, use the theories of deliberative democracy to analysis the Game in the price hearing, and hope to make recommendations for reform of the price hearing.This article has four parts, the first parts is the Introduction, it is brief summed up the research background, research value, the concepts, literature review, as well as this paper ideas, research methods and innovations. The second part said because of the pricing dilemma in utilities, so it is need price control. And in order to ensured public goods, public services and monopoly product's price reasonable, the price hearing system can be used in the course of their pricing, the system is also with the concept of deliberative democracy coincided in basic values and ideas. The third part through the analysis of the bargaining game in the price hearing, pointed out that because of consumer lost the game, result in the"every hearing must be up"phenomenon seriously. From this point, this part also analysis the main reason leading to the consumer losing game, these reasons includes participations and information. The forth part give some improvement strategies, these strategies is help to solved above problem which can lead to consumers losing in game. It is included improve the price hearing system construction; improve the participants selection method in price hearing; fully the role of consumer association in price hearing; eliminate information asymmetry in the price of the hearing; regulate the choice mechanism of hearing moderator, etc.Therefore, only through a variety of means to allow consumers to bargain more effectively in order to truly make our country the price hearing system out of the woods.