Local Government Performance Assessment Study

The performance evaluation of the public section began from the budget system of the United States in 1950s. The widespread reforms of the western countries government has made the performance management applied extensively since 1970s. In the Middle of 1980s, in order to reply to the quickly technical development, the environment of globalization and international competition increasingly, and the solution of deficit, the setting up of high quantity service image to the social public, the western countries have widely taken the reform measures of performance evaluation with the principle of public duty and customer supremacy. Compared with the western countries, the government section performance evaluation of our country, especially the research and practice of the performance evaluation of the public section started late. Along with the continuously reform of the administration system and the increasing degree of the participation of the public democracy, it is necessary for the government section to the set up the thought of service , improve the style of work, increase the efficiency of work and service quantity in order to adapt to the international vigorous competition environment after the join of WTO, and gradually establish a set of standard, systematized, systemized, scientific system of performance evaluation.During these years, with the background of the successful WTO affiliation, the gradually society attention and the world wave of the performance evaluation in the public section, our country government has put the performance evaluation to the top agenda. Especially with the current theories of "three representatives", "the right scientism development ", and "the view of development ", many researchers and governor have already positively join in the research and practice of the government performance evaluation.The government performance evaluation is the value judgment activity of the movement process and result of the government organization, which is an important...