决策模式对政府行为影响分析——IISA会议.docVIP

Analysis on How the Decision-Making Model influences Local Government Behaviors Zhai Xiaoyi and Lu Chunlong Abstract: The model of top leader making all decisions or model of collective decision-making shows to what extent the government decision power is centralized. The various levels of power centralization will lead to different behavioral models. This empirical study is going to analyze two typical models of decision-making in China: the model of top leader making all decisions and model of collective decision-making. The empirical findings indicate that: the levels of power centralization have significant impacts upon the role of power in cadre promotion, interest representation in decision-making, the role of laws in constraining the behaviors of civil servants, and the use of power for interests of relatives and friends. In addition, the levels of power centralization have significant impacts upon the public participation in government decision-making and the decision transparency. We also find that there is a significant positive relationship between decision transparency and power preference. All in all, these findings support our argument that decision-making models have impacts upon the way that power is used and its transparency. Keywords: Decision-making model Government behaviors Power preference Decision-making transparency Decision-making has significant impacts on government activities. How to decide and what kind of deciding methods to choose are the most important decision-making mechanism other than the topics in decision-making, having constant influence on government behavior and demonstration significance to the whole bureaucratic system which would directly affect the behavior of low lever. Under the situation of the expansion influence of the top leader decision-making model, it is worth reflecting upon the impacts of the top leader decision-making model and the collective decision-making model and how to understand this kind o