行政执法,是相对于立法和司法机关的执法而言的。狭义的行政执法,是指行政机关或者法律、法规授权的组织(统称行政主体)行使行政职权,将普遍适用的法律规范作用于具体对象并直接产生法律效果的行为。这种行为在法理上和有关法律中称为具体行政行为,如行政检查、行政许可、行政征收、行政处罚、行政强制等。广义的行政执法,泛指行政主体为执行法律规范而作出的一切履行公务的外部行政行为,既包括具体行政行为,也包括行政机关制定和发布具有普遍约束力的规范性文件的行为,即抽 Administrative law enforcement is relative to the law enforcement by the legislature and the judiciary. Narrow sense of administrative law enforcement refers to the administrative organs or organizations authorized by laws and regulations (collectively referred to as the administrative body) to exercise administrative authority to apply generally applicable legal norms to specific objects and directly produce legal effects. Such acts are referred to as specific administrative acts in jurisprudence and relevant laws, such as administrative examination, administrative permission, administrative collection, administrative punishment and administrative enforcement. Broad sense of administrative law enforcement, refers to the administrative body for the implementation of legal norms to make all the external administrative acts to perform their duties, including both specific administrative acts, but also include the development and publication of administrative bodies with universal binding normative documents behavior, that pumping