Research On NPC Representatives’ Influential Path Of Government Policies And The Impacts

Governmental public policies should reflect the will of the masses andrepresent common benefits. The implementation efficiency by people’s will is toa large margin defines the reliability and validity of governmentaldecision-making. As representatives of the masses’ will in China, the mainobligation of NPC representatives lies in hearing from appeals and demands ofthe people and behaves on the behalf of people’s interest and will. The revereposition of NPC representatives in jurisprudential meaning and their “silence” inreality had formed strong “contrast”. The system of people’s congress is still tooyoung to effectively assist the function of representatives, the obligationexecution of NPC representatives are not flawless nor are the judicial status ofNPC representatives and legal rights well recognized by the society. The jointdrawbacks of imperfect electoral system, passive election of electors and passivewinning of representatives have negative impacts on the role of representatives. The process of NPC representatives’ influences on governmental policymaking is on the other hand the process of collecting people’s will, integratingpeople’s will, presenting people’s will as well as realizing people’s will. NPCrepresentatives’ influential path of governmental policies mainly includesdeliberation and voting each work report of the government, addressinginquiries about governmental project work and submitting written suggestions,criticisms and opinions when they are expanding specific researches and workinvestigations on behalf of the group to contact the masses. However, seen fromthe effects of NPC’s influence on governmental policies, the deliberation qualityis still required to be improved. Rigid means are employed respectively lessfrequent, the quality of governmental representative suggestion needs to beimproved, activities of the representative groups are merely formal and themechanism of representatives’ joining in folks needs to be perfected and a fullplay of NPC representatives is required to be brought forth.Relying on theories of principal agency and managerial participation, thethesis applies a combination of document analysis method and theoreticalapproach to analyze the path of NPC representatives’ impacts on governmentalpolicies and the effects based on the NPC representative group of Jiaxing City,put forth suggestions of bringing into play NPC representative’s function ofsupervising government, paying adequate attention to representatives’ writtenproposals, completing system of bonding representatives and the masses,reforming and completing representative election system, enhancing representatives’ execution of duty and services in order to better bring into playof representatives’ function of collecting and reflecting public opinions and tofurther widen channels for the public to express their opinions, basegovernment’s public policies on public opinions and to improve the legitimacyand effectiveness of public policies.