The influence of ancient China and ancient Athens supervision system

Ancient Chinese imperial supervision were dependent on the imperial power, the officials in the exercise of their powers have full status protection. Under the monarchical dictatorship, the basic starting point of the inspection system is to maintain the imperial power as the core of feudal rule, the inspector is but the eyes and ears of the emperor, only responsible to the emperor. Therefore, the size of the role of the monitoring system to the emperor's enlightenment and stupidity for the transfer. Generally speaking, in the case of the emperor's sagacity, attach importance to the rule of law, the role of supervision can often be played better, to inhibit the corruption of officials, clarifying the rule of law, the exercise of the regulatory function, to ensure the normal operation of the state apparatus has a certain positive effect.

2. Ancient Athens

Classical period, Athens established a relatively perfect supervision mechanism for officials, the qualification examination before the term of office and the vote of confidence and denunciation procedures during the term of office, as well as the audit of accounts before leaving office, from the selection, employment, accountability and recourse to curb the abuse of power and corruption of the officials to a certain extent to realize the system of anti-corruption, and to safeguard the democratic system of Athens. Athens mainly through the people and jury court to realize the effective supervision of officials.