A Study On China's Public Participation In Governmental Budget Based On The Perspective Of Budget Democracy

With the dilute ideology that swept every country in the whole world, the operations of the governments of different nations don't focus on the difference of political ideology and regime any more, but the governmental governance capacity as measured standard instead. As one of the critical standard to measure and judge the capacity of governmental governance , the government's fiscal capacity is regarded as the most important respect. Without the support from public finance, all the government activities and behavior can't move on. With the development of the internet technology and the rise of the media supervision, which both wake up the public's enthusiasm and demand for public finance.In the last decade, the Chinese public budget reform had a breakthrough in the reform of sector budget , government procurement and centralized collection and payment by the state treasury. In a word, the feature in this reform highlighted a technical orientation. However, the reform that featured system and technology emphasized more science in budget but it pays little attention to the democracy in budget. As a solid foundation of public finance, public reform is how to deal with the relationship between the budget and governmental democratic governance and to balance the science and democracy in budget. But as a matter of fact, the reform in the past few years didn't pay enough attention to the two former relationships.In the background of gradual warming attention to governmental budget from the public and in the trend of demanding for democracy in public finance, public participation in budget appeared in the people's sight. Public participation in budget has become an innovation to traditional budget management. In such a model, the public was allowed to participate to every process in the budget. During the whole process of budget, the public has the opportunity to participate and influence the allocation of social resources and social policy. The public also can monitor and evaluate the result of budget expenditure. Public participation in budget has become a new trend in budget reform in global grass-roots government based on the advantages mentioned before. In recent years, a surge of public participation in governmental budget appeared in some regions in China. Participatory budget has achieved an excellent effect as a new trying and breakthrough in China's local government. Participatory budget also has become an innovation of system in the democratic governance of local government. This paper focus on the participatory budget in China and make a in-depth analysis and research in this new model in budget management particularly in the trend of democracy in budget. This paper firstly begins to build a structure for the theoretical basis of participatory budget combined with the historical background of China's public budget reform. At the same time, participatory budget as a reform experience introduced from abroad, this paper focuses on how it works in China in chapter 3. As a reform experience introduced from abroad, especially through the localization, what the experience model will be formed and the reason of the difference both will be discussed in this paper. This paper further analyzes the participatory budget in China after the analysis of the fact of participatory budget. The further analysis displays the conditions of China's participatory budget, the operation mechanism between different practice models, the effect factors of participatory budget in China and the measures taken to perfect the China's participatory budget. In perspectives of the science and sustainable development for participatory budget in China, this paper makes a reasonable plan for the development targets for participatory budget in the future. And build a primary system and structure for the public participation in budget in China.In the past, people always do this research from the subject of political science, economics and so on. The paper study the participation in governmental budget based on the perspective of budget democracy. Beside this, this paper makes use of the budget democracy-related theory and combines the normative analysis with empirical analysis. The paper also combines qualitative research with quantitative research. In addition to use the routine subject of political science and administration management, the paper also makes use of the theoretical tools and models of public finance and economics to mix the different perspectives and research methods.