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At This Stage Of Our Citizens To Participate In The Government Performance Assessment

Posted on:2011-09-03Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y ZhuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2206360308482532Subject:Public Management
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Performance measurement of local governments plays an important role in government's management, which is also inspiration and basis of improving government performance. Traditionally the"top-down"model is adopted in Chinese government performance measurement, which is initiated by government. However, government performance measurement is not only the government's business but also needs citizen's active involvement which calls for a"bottom-up"evaluating system in contrast.The article unearthed disadvantages of Chinese local government performance measurement on the aspects of participation system, idea of government management and citizens by employing theoretical research and case study, and finally proposed the a plan intending to improve citizen participation in local government performance measurement.The paper is divided into 3 parts: introduction, development and conclusion.The first part briefly introduces the background and significance of the research by analyzing researches home and abroad. It expounds basic concepts and theories involved, the research method as well as innovation.The second part is developed by 4 sections. In section one, the author elaborates the past, present situation, achievements and problems of citizen participation in government performance measurement in China. Section two is analysis causes for existing problemsin citizen participation in government performance measurement in China. In section three, the author analyses the present citizen participation in government performance measurement in developed countries; compares citizen participation in government performance measurement home and abroad as well as the two's government performance measurement; finds differences and therefore figures out measures that could be applied in China. In Section four, based on the research of previous two sections, the author explores strategies and measures which may complete citizen participation in government performance measurement from angles of constructing the systems that guarantees citizen participation, transforming Administrative idea of the government; perfecting procedure and index design of citizen participation as well as enhancing citizen's ability to participate and etc.In the conclusion, the article implies that a series of effective measures must be taken to improve and promote citizen participation in Chinese government performance measurement, which will consequently improve the level of citizen participation in government performance measurement.
Keywords/Search Tags:government performance, citizen participation, performance measurement
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