Study On The Obstacles Of The Performance Assessment In Our Local Government And Its Countermeasures

Outstanding performance is a cornerstone of good government image and plays animportant role in measuring government performance assessment in the management level,increasing government efficiency, improving the quality of services. Performancemeasurement has also become a very popular topic area.The performance assessment of our local government started from 1950's, developed in1960's, mass applied in 1970's, be attached importance to in 1980's, upto evaluation countryappeared in 1990's, actually it has be widely applied in government's management by variouscountries and areas. The gestation, producing and development of performance measurementin the government management is the result of development of public managementknowledge, and also the result of development of social and the promotion of governmentinnovation in west countries.The performance assessment of our local government has become more and moresignificant as the further development of our reforms of executive management andtransforms of government functions. At present, the performance assessment of localgovernment of western countries has accumulated more experiences and has made someachievement in both the theoretical and practical aspects. However, the researches ofperformance assessment of our local government start comparatively late and are still in thepreliminary stages.This thesis starts from the problems appearing in the present performance assessment ofour local government and systematically arranges and analyzes these questions. Furthermoreit presents some improvement measures according to our real situation. This thesis first beginsfrom the analysis of theories of performance assessment of local government and clarifies itsrealistic significance by comparing it with other similar conception. Secondly it analyzes thepresent situation and problems of performance assessment of our local government bycombining theories and practice of it. Finally according to the situation, some improvementmeasures from four aspects after deep consideration about the problems appearing inperformance assessment of our local government.