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Believable Promise and Honest Government Construction

ZHOU Guo-xiong   

  1. Shanghai University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
  • Received:2007-04-01 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2007-07-15 Published:2007-07-15

Abstract: Policy execution, as a key link in change from the principle of public policy to its practice, is a dynamic process of benefit express and tactics interchange between two relative sides, among which, the governmental “promise” of reward or punishing that has been kept for promoting policy execution gives a direct influence on the result of policy execution. This essay, starting from the concept of believable promise in policy execution game, gives a probe into the inherent relation between strengthening honest government construction and enhancing public policy execution and makes some suggestion on honest government construction.

Key words: repetitive game, believable promise, honest government, policy execution

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