现代西方国家行政公益诉讼制度的实践及特征

Practice and Characteristics of the Administrative Cause of Bublic Benefit in Modern Western Nations

行政公益诉讼是为有效保护社会公共利益而产生的一项新型的诉讼制度。该制度在西方法治国家已经发展得较为成熟,它对于维护社会公共利益和公民合法权益、督促政府依法行政具有重大意义,是现代法治国家政治文明的重要标志之一。研究国外行政公益诉讼制度,总结其具有共性的特征,对于推动我国行政公益诉讼制度的建立和发展将是大有裨益的。

The administrative cause of public benefit is a new lawsuit system for efficient protection of social public benefits. This system,has been developed relatively mature in western law - ruled nations. It has great significance for safeguarding social public benefits and citizen＇ s legitimate rights and interests, and also for supervising the government to administer the state according to law. It is one of the important sighs of political civilization in modern law - ruled nations. Researching the systems of administrative cause of public benefit in western nations and summing their common characteristics will be greatly helpful to promote the establishment and development of the administrative cause of public benefit in our country.