Budgetary Supervision in China

An Institutional Perspective of Provincial People's Congress

This book studies the problems of budgetary supervision system of China's provincial People's Congress, and analyzes their causes and provides the solutions.

The author explores the topic from the perspective of the provincial People's Congress, which is at the intermediate level in the Chinese political hierarchy, as the corresponding level of provincial government possesses local legislature power. With further normalization of the central government management, local governance will be critical to political development in the futures. Improvement of the budgetary supervision system of the provincial People's Congress will promote legal construction of the local government, which will necessarily affect the game of standardization of the powers of the government and civil rights.

The book also analyzes the power of amendment of draft budget and legal construction of the disclosure of budget information, especially investigating the provincial power structure during the process of budgetary supervision and uncovering the problems and difficulties in the budgetary supervision system in China.

Contents:

• General Theory of Budgetary Supervision of the People's Congress:

  • Theoretical Analysis of Budgetary Supervision
  • Constitutional Significance of Budgetary Supervision
  • The Principle of Budgetary Supervision

• Overview of the System of Budgetary Supervision of Provincial People's Congress:

  • Changes of the Budgetary Supervision System of Provincial People's Congress
  • Origins of the Budgetary Supervision System of Provincial People's Congress
  • Main Contents and Procedures of Budgetary Supervision of Provincial People's Congress

• Problems in the Process of Budgetary Supervision of Provincial People's Congress:

  • Deficiencies in the Power of Budgetary Supervision
  • Insufficient Transparency of Budget Information
  • Imperfect Procedure of Budgetary Supervision
  • Case Studies: Shanghai, Gansu and Guangdong Provinces

• The First Part of System Improvement: Rational Allocation of the Power of Budgetary Supervision:

  • The Power of Supervision in Budgetary Decision-Making
  • Power of Supervision in the Process of Making Budget
  • Sound Restrictions of the Power of Budgetary Supervision of the People's Congress

• The Second Part of System Improvement: Strengthening Budget Information Disclosure:

  • Improvement of the Budget Information Disclosure System
  • Ensuring Citizens' Right to Know on Budget Information

• The Third Part of System Improvement: Improvement of Budgetary Supervision Procedure:

  • Proposal for Strengthening Supervision System in the Whole Process
  • Improvement of the Supervision Procedure in the Stage of Budgetary Compilation
  • Avoid Blank Spot of Supervision in the Process of Budgetary Implementation

Readership: Academics, undergraduate and graduate students, professionals interested in China's budgetary supervision and control, China's Provincial People's Congress, provincial politics, local governance, fiscal constitutionalism and public policy.
Key Features:

• In-depth studies on budgetary supervision in China
• Convincing evidence from cases studies of different provinces