公共利益与公共治理

公共治理是实现公共利益的核心途径。公共利益在公共治理中具有的重大功能可以从政治、经济、法律、社会和文化四个方面得以体现。公共利益所反映的是,在多元社会的治理过程中,政府与利益相关者在利益和利益分配问题上所达成的共识。在公共治理的过程中,如何体现和实现公共利益,以下几个方面是重要的:公共治理是否尊重了人的尊严和保护了公民的权利;公共治理是否体现了大多数人的利益和弱势群体利益优先;公共治理是否超越了特殊利益集团、部门、地方和短期的利益;公共治理是否尊重了科学与理性;公共治理的过程是否开放和尊重了民意、遵循了正当程序和社会公认的伦理和道德标准。

Public Interest and Public Governance

Public governance is the crucial way to realize public interest.The importance of public interest for public governance mainly represents in the fields of polity,economy,society and law.It is believed that the public interest is a consensus between the government and stakeholders on the interest and the interest distribution in a pluralistic society.In the process of public governance,the following aspects are significant to achieve public interest: public governance whether or not respects human dignity and protects civil rights;public governance whether or not reflects the majority’s interest and takes the disadvantaged groups’ interest as a superior value-orientation;public governance whether or not goes beyond the special interest group,sectorial,local and the short-term interest;public governance whether or not respects rationality;the process of public governance whether or not opens to the public and responds people’s needs,adheres to the democratic and legal process,and the ethical as well as moral standard deemed by the society.