Legalization Of Government Performance Management In China

In the early 1970 s,with the New Public Management Movement a lot of governments implemented government performance management as a new management style in western countries.After 40 years,government performance management in western countries not only reflect scientific and democratic characteristics,but also provide a stable institutional support and legal guarantee,which provides important reference and basis for other countries to introduce and use government performance management.Beginning in the 1980 s,China has implemented a modern significance of government performance evaluation activities.Since 2005 the State Council's report firstly proposed the establishment "the Government Performance Evaluation System",the local government began to extensive implement performance evaluation.The 18 th National Congress of the Communist Party of China further proposed that “exercise government administration in an innovative way,increase public trust in the government,and improve its competence so as to make the government performance-oriented.” At the same time,lack of normative,scientific and persistent in the government performance management practiced in China,and the legalization deficiency was an important bottleneck restricting the development of the government performance management.Therefore,based on the background of administrative system reform in China and the experience of western countries in legalization of government performance management,this paper studies the path and the basic idea of legalization of government performance management in China.This paper mainly focuses on the following questions: Why should the government performance management in China be legalized? What is the theoretical basis of the legalization of government performance management? Which are experiences and enlightenments of government performance management in the foreign countries? What are the common characteristics and differences of the government performance management legislation at home and abroad? What is the path and basic idea of legislation of government performance management in China?The paper is divided into seven parts.Chapter?: Introduction.This paper expounds the background and significance of this topic,summarizes the relevant research literatures at home and abroad and puts forward the basic ideas and contents.Chapter?: The practice of government performance management in China and inevitability of legalization.Based on the comparison of longitudinal development and horizontal pattern,this paper analyzes the problems existing in the practice of government performance management and discusses the necessity and feasibility of the legalization of government performance management in China.Chapter ?: The basic theoretical research of legalization of government performance management.Based on New Public Management Theory,Government Performance Management Theory,the Public Accountability Theory and Rule-by-Law Government Theory,this paper analyzes four theories to guide the legalization of government performance management.Chapter IV: The practice and enlightenment legalization of government performance management in foreign countries.In this paper,the sample sampling method is adopted to sample the English and non-English speaking countries,the independent legislation and the decentralized legislation.The paper analyzes the evolution of the legal system of government performance management and the content of the government performance management legislation,summarizes the experiences of foreign legalization of government performance management and enlightenment of the legalization of government performance management in China.Chapter V: Based on the legislative text the comparison of domestic and foreign legalization of government performance management.Based on the content of government performance management and the principle of administrative rule of law,this paper constructs the theoretical framework of legalization of government performance management.Based on the theoretical framework,this paper adopts the method of content analysis to compare the domestic and foreign government performance management legislation,studies the difference of the legislation of government performance management,and analyzes the insufficiency and improvement measures of the legislation of government performance management.Chapter VI: Based on the above argument,the paper puts forward the path and suggestions legalization of government performance management in China.Chapter VII: Conclusions and research prospects.In this paper,the main conclusions are lain in: First,based on the requirements of the standardizational,scientific and sustained development of government performance management in China,followed the basic national policy of government administration in accordance with the law and democracy and law-based governance,the legalization of government performance management in our country is inevitable.Second,the theory of legalization of government performance management involves the two disciplines about management science and administrative law,so it is constructed by New Public Management Theory,Government Performance Management Theory,the Public Accountability Theory and Rule-by-Law Government Theory.Third,the practice of legalization of government performance management in foreign countries provides experience and inspiration for legalization of government performance management in China through the legislative purpose,organizational system,feedback and use of performance information and the development path.Fourthly,based on the comparative analysis of the contents of the domestic and foreign government performance management legislation,it is found that the legislation of government performance management highlights the legislative objectives of the task assessment function in China.However,compared with the foreign government performance management legislation,the legislation still need improvement.However,compared with the foreign government performance management legislation it still need improvement legislation throught setting performance objectives,disclosure and use performance information,and implementation of administrative rule of law.Fifth,for promoting the process of legalization of government performance management in China,it should complete the path of legal system construction,clear legislative ideas of the government performance management,so as to promote the legal construction of government performance management in China.In the paper,the main innovations are lain in: firstly,it expounds the theoretical basis of legalization of government performance management based on New Public Management Theory,Government Performance Management Theory,the Public Accountability Theory and Rule-by-Law Government Theory.Second,based on Government Performance Management Theory and Rule-by-Law Government Theory,it is to construct the framework of legalization of government performance management and compare the domestic and foreign representative government performance management legislation with quantitative content analysis.Third,this paper provides the ideas and basic framework of legislation of government performance management in China,which has policy value to promote the legislation of government performance management.