公共选择理论是由著名经济学家詹姆斯.布坎南提出,经过众多学者发展而形成的,它以“经济人”假说为基本行为假设前提,揭示了政府管理行为与社会的的关系,并对“政府失灵”进行了充分详细的论证。尽管我国与西方资本主义国家的政治制度不同,但从公共管理体制上来看,建立在代议制民主决策研究背景上的一些思路和结论为我国行政问责制健全和完善提供了有益的启示。 The theory of public choice, which was proposed by the famous economist James Buchanan and developed by many scholars, uses the hypothesis of “economic man ” as the premise of basic behavior, reveals the relationship between government management behavior and society, And carried out a full and detailed demonstration of “government failure ”. Although China has different political systems with Western capitalist countries, from the perspective of public management system, some ideas and conclusions based on the research background of representative democratic decision-making provide useful enlightenment for the sound and perfect administrative accountability system in our country.