Associate Professor Zhang Ping, a researcher at the Social Security Research Center of Wuhan University, and Lv Mengxue, a master's candidate, published a paper entitled "How Local Public Expenditure Responds to Public Demand: Taking the Bills of Municipal People's Congress A from 1999 to 2006 as an Analysis Sample" in the third issue of Local Finance Research, a CSSCI source journal (extended edition).

【author】Zhang Ping,Lv Mengxue

【Published journals】《地方财政研究》

【Journal level】CSSCI(extended edition)

【Publication time】Issue 3,2022

【Abstract】Local government public expenditure should respond to the public needs of local residents, and how to effectively measure public needs is the key premise to achieve this goal. This paper takes the proposal of a municipal people's congress representative in a provincial capital city A as a tool to measure public demand, and empirically examines the response mechanism of public expenditure to the public demand of local residents. The results show that the impact of public demand on public expenditure still has room for expansion under the representative mechanism of "voting with hands", and the local government of city A selectively responds to public demand. Specifically, from the perspective of expenditure type, the impact of the representative bill on the social welfare expenditure is relatively significant, and it is not feasible to hope to curb the expansion of administrative costs through the representative bill. From the perspective of geographical expenditure, the proposals of the representatives of the central urban area and the district where the provincial and municipal governments are located have received more expenditure responses, and the public needs of the areas with lower fiscal revenues have also been more satisfied.

【Keywords】public expenditure; public needs; Bills of the National People's Congress.