On Public's Participation In Performance Management Of Local Governments

The managerialism transformation on public administration has formed an important tendency that improves the government's performance, and the performance management has been widely used in the whole world as an effective management method. The attention on public's participation is a core value orientation of performance management, this has also become a remarkable characteristic of government's performance management among many countries of the world at present. Based on the studies of the Western countries's experience in the performance management, all levels of local authorities in our country have created many ways for the public's participation in the performance management of the government, this has received certain effect, but at the same time it also has many problems. If the local authorities want to solve these problems and make the development of the performance management sustainable, they should try hard to construct the mechanism of public's participation in the performance management. Take such a mechanism as the platform, the public will comprehensively participate in the entire process of performance management, participate in the formulation and implementation of the performance goal, appraise the performance goal and supervise the utilization of the appraisal result. Through the decentralization management, performance information communication and performance drive and restraint, which constitute the performance safeguard mechanism, the government's performance is impeled to achieve unceasing enhancement. The mutual interaction and cooperation between the public and the government in the performance management will help the public's administrative participation become a persistent and effective mechanism, and it will also form performance harmany in the society. The public's participation relys both on the positively cultivation of the culture of public participation and the citizenized society's development and expansion. The public's participation is not only the driving force of the government's reform, but also an eternal goal of the democratic administration.