The Reflection on Public Participation in Public Decisions in China——A Study of the Book Public Participation in Public Decisions: New Skills and Strategies for Public Managers

John Clayton Thomas's book Public Participation in Public Decisions: New Skills and Strategies for Public Managers should be read in a critical way,because of restriction of our economical environment,deficiency in institutional construction and low quality of public participation.The book enlightens us about the consummation of public participation in Chinese public decision making ideologically and practically.Practically,it needs a reconsideration of institutionalization and technologies of participation in public decision.Ideologically,managers and scholars ought to renew their idea of management and of study individually.