Study On The Demands Of Public Policy Performance Evaluation: Motivations, Measurements And Factors

The public policy performance evaluation is a new field of study, while study on the demands of evaluation is also in its infancy now. Public policy performance evaluation can be considered as performance-oriented public policy evaluation, or can be considered as measuring the results of the policy in a certain area for a certain time, which is with the Overall Performance Evaluation, public sector performance evaluation and public project performance evaluation, forming the whole system of government performance evaluation. Study on the demands of evaluation is a key stage of the whole process of evaluation, and decide the concepts, methods and the orientation of the evaluation.Public policy, as an important way of distributing the public resources, has great influence on the society. Essentially saying, the demands of public policy performance evaluation come out of the"bad policy"and its consequences. Like unscientific decision-making process; or the policy preference, which is the result of game of different interest groups; or the values the governments holing are different with the public's during the policy process; or the goals of the governments'acting are different with the society's, there are a great many parts of the current public policies are not reasonable. Unreasonable policies brought great waste of resources, attached a negative impact on the public's life, and even caused political crisis, which can be found in histories of many countries in the world. So the public policy performance evaluation is acting an irreplaceable role in the whole process.This thesis focuses on the motivations, the methods of measuring and the affecting factors from a performance vision, and we found that the motivations, which promote the growing of demands on the public policy performance evaluation, are related to the changes in the financial system, the rise of the government accountability, the rise of civil society, and the developing of the public policy, etc. The reasons that the motivations turned up come from both inside and outside of the government. Different goals of evaluation and various demands from the public, the demands of evaluation are different and changing factors of economy, society and politics are essential to realize the"demands". In the light of that the demands of evaluation are clearing, and the technology are developing, the system of public policy performance evaluation will definitely be built up in someday, and will play an important role in the democratization and legalization progress of our country.