Countermeasures Of Improving The Local Government Performance Evaluation

In the early 1970s,the performance evaluation of government as a major political activity began to flourish in the western countries,as an important measure adopted generally by western government reform,because of its remarkable achievements like the evaluation and improvement to government performance and the promotion of the innovation of governmental management concept,make it being adopted by more and more local governments,the performance evaluation of government has thus gradually became an important component of the various countries' public administrative reform in theory and practice.Our study of local government performance evaluation started very late, it is still at the primary stage,after exploration and practice in recent years,performance evaluation in the application of China's public management gradually become extensive,and has obtained some achievements.At present,for the limit of a specific environment and the management level,our country still exists more defects in innovation of evaluation idea,setting of evaluation indicator,assessment legalization,the standardization of the information system and the use of evaluation results.This article,aiming at the above various elaborated problems existed in our country's government performance evaluation,based on the study and reference of western countries' performance assessment activities,pertinently put forward various countermeasures,make exploratory research emphatically from the performance evaluation of government information and legalization,performance audit and assessment results using,then put forward a development path accords with China's national conditions and suitable for development situation of local government performance evaluation.In the end,combined with balanced score card,the article afresh design the local government performance evaluation index system,on the one hand,guide the rational local government function change,on the other hand,it has great significance for the construction of the service-oriented government and improvement of people's livelihoods.This article will start from the research background and significance,research status,research tools and methods and research ideas etc;Secondly,from the theoretical analysis of local government performance appraisal,define performance,performance evaluation,government performance and other concepts,and describe evaluation method and evaluation procedures in detail,also emphasized the value and importance of performance evaluation;Third,by combining theory with practice,from assessment system,evaluation information system,assessment body to evaluation index system to analyze China's present situation of local government performance evaluation and the existing problems;Fourth,through the evaluation of western countries' practice and experience of performance evaluation,in order to get some enlightenment on China's construction of performance evaluation;Finally,under the guidance of the scientific outlook on development,from determination of value orientation,establishment of information system,performance reporting and establishment of auditing system,the legalization of assessment activities and results using mechanism to present improving strategies from several aspects.