Study On Performance Evaluation Of Local Government

The performance evaluation of the public section began from the second world war, and widely be used in the administration reforms of countries.It has many functions that can't be replaced, inappreciating the government's ability, improving government's performance, supervising government's behavior, improving relation of government and society public etc. Since the 70's of 20 centuries, along with the enhance of all countries government's cost-consciousness and the citizen's inspecting- consciousness. It was booming up used as an important political activity in the developed countries, and became an important measure that adopt quickly and widely in the reformation of the western government.In the last few years, along with the continuous administration reforms of our country and the improving in the level of the government management, some local governments already started with the trial of the government performance measurement. But the kind of inertial affected the fulfillment of performance measurement of local government, made some of them exposed a serious problems in theirs process of practice. Because performance measurement of the local government is still stated in the stage in start, and because we don't have enough experiences that make the problem of the local government performance evaluation unavoidable.On this foundation, the article analysis the substance and course of these problems from viewpoints of the pubic administration, that concentrate on finding a developing path for performance measurement of local government, which keep it with state of the our country and the concrete local circumstance closely.The thesis starts from the theories analysis of performance measurement of government, giving a definition of it, proceed to explain its realistic meaning from the widespread meaning; The next in order, take British and American as examples, introduce practices of the local government performance measurement in western countries and their experience, and give a brief evaluation to it; Again, the theories combines together with fulfillment, analyze condition and existent problems of performance measurement of local government in present; Finally,it draw lessons from the experience of the western country and combine it with the state of our country together, inquiry into the concrete measures that push forward the development of performance measurement system of local government, to make it to head for the road that scientific, systemize, standardize, develop its functions well in the modernization of government management.