The Study On Public Service Performance And Assessment System For Township Governments Under Local Governance Perspective

Although the township government is the lowest level in the current national administration system, actually it undertakes important responsibilities of planning and organizing the village public utilities, building the public cause, providing the public product and the public services for the countryside. Its condition of fulfillment to the responsibility directly relates to the stability and advancement in the countryside and has the major impact to the entire country and the society. The township government plays significant role that organizations at other levels cannot replace. While in the social transition period, the governments especially the township government function weakly in public services. Phenomenon as"the offside","the vacancy"and"the dislocation"still exist in the operation pattern of the township government. By analyzing the function of the township government, this article raised questions of public service in the new rural construction, proposed feasible measures of the township government function reconstructing which based on the public service-oriented and multi-dimensional local governance. Thus a whole assessment system reflects the basic public service performance of the township government in a thorough, true and fair way, which is adaptable to the new rural construction and the public service-oriented government demand. The township government public service performance assessment system utilizes a certain inspection method, the quantification target and the appraisal standard, to provide a comprehensive inspection and assessment to the installation, operation, process of management and the result of the township government public service. The purpose is to promote the public service level and its real performance. Under the above mentioned frame, this article mainly studies how to construct the public service performance assessment system for the township governments in Guangdong. This appraisal system must take the farmers'satisfaction on quality of the public service and development environment as the key standard and benefit the farmers with the governmental public services. The author follows the Marxism basic standpoint and the method as the foundation and the premise of research, profits from the local governance theory, the new public service theory, the social equity theory and the government performance assessment theory , takes township governments in Guangdong Province as the case and the local authority public service as the breakthrough point, and brings forward the basic tentative plan in building the public service performance assessment system. Besides the introductory remark, this article divides into five normal chapters and the conclusion chapter. The introductory remark mainly presents the paper writing mentality. The first chapter mainly analyzes the theory base and reference of the public service performance assessment research. The second chapter mainly carries on the analysis to the township government function in our country and also its situation in Guangdong Province. The third chapter mainly analyzes the public service and its development limitation of the township government. The fourth chapter mainly analyzes the method and practice of the public service performance assessment from international, domestic and Guangdong point of view. The fifth chapter mainly analyzes construction of the township government public service performance assessment system, dealing with the further explanation by the Guangdong cases. The conclusion chapter mainly summarizes the full text and point out the insufficiency of the research and future direction of effort.This paper consists of the following viewpoints: firstly, it introduces the local governance theory into this topic as the research and analysis frame. It studies the new rural construction and the local governance pattern led by the township government and with multi-dimensional participation under the public service government construction background. It proposes a basic tentative plan of the public service performance assessment system for the township government; secondly, as a front exploration to the innovation of the township government performance assessment mechanism, it develops the beneficial research attempt to the public service performance assessment in the township government level. It analyzes problems which the public service faces in the new rural construction, and carries on the proof analysis taking the Guangdong township government as the case. Based on this, it proposes a basic tentative plan of the public service performance assessment system for the township governments in Guangdong; thirdly, it summarizes the international experience, the domestic normal situation, and cases of the Guangdong township governments for the public service performance assessment. The basic tentative plan of the public service performance assessment system for the Guangdong township governments adapts to the local situation and contributes partly to the good exploration and practice on this issue in the whole country. It has the practical significance to establish a set of effective township government public service assessment system regarding the reform of the township government, the transformation of the township government function from the management-oriented to the service-oriented, the enhancement of the public service performance of the township government, and the promotion for it public service transformation and the innovation of the local governance pattern.