The Restraint of the Government Information Disclosure Discretion: A Response from the Perspective of Standardization

Abstract

There is real necessity of the existence of the discretion in the process of government information disclosure, which is the requirement for coping with regional differences, law lagging and multidimensional personalized demands of information disclosure. But the right of discretion may be over-interpreted and abused if it is used autonomously and improperly. Establishing the government information open ISO quality management standardization system and realizing the standardization of the operation process, in theory, can effectively deal with the generalization and even abuse of the right of discretion. You can promote the government information disclosure to become precise, legalized and transparent from the start, if the method of upper and lower law, standardization and individuation, mandatory standards and voluntary standards, the relationship between national standards and local standards is correctly handled.