Study On The Operation Of Government Performance Evaluation Power

In twentieth century seventies and eighties, as troubled by the public finance deficitplight, the government management crisis, as well as the accompanied public trustcrisis, the Britain and America government first opened the administrative reformcurtain with the theme of improving public management level in the world, theyactively adopted the government performance evaluation system which isperformance-oriented, results-oriented, and customer first-emphasized. With thedevelopment of economic globalization, political democratization, informationinternationalization accelerated, seeking high-efficiency administration, providinghigh-quality services and improving the public’s satisfaction have become aconsensus of government reforms for most developed and developing countries. Asthe government performance evaluation and performance management system justmeet those needs well, it is highly respected and widely used in the world. And now,it becomes the government’s preferred strategy to improve public management andtheir performance, becomes the fundamental measure for government reengineering,becomes a power tool to improve the relations between government and the publicavailably, to alleviate social contradictions and social crisis effectively, and becomesan important way to enhance the government’s credibility and promote governmentimages.Between the government and the public does not only exist the principal-agentrelation, but also a public accountability relation. Motivated by the needs to maintainand promote the mutual interests, the public entrusted its own property and its right togovernment willingly, while the government accepted the commission, and obtainedmanagement rights of the trust resource, and should undertake the due obligations atthe same time. Government performance evaluation is that the government and itscivil servants put information of the condition of their finished and unfinished dutiesand tasks, including what has been done, how to do and how about the results,truthfully reveal to the public, and accept the supervision and evaluation from thepublic consciously. What’s more, it contains a public accountability and publicsupreme-oriented management philosophy, and is a public responsibility mechanism.By participating in or implementation of performance evaluation, clients can get toknow and supervise the use efficiency, effect and social benefit of their delegatedresources. Government performance evaluation provides a way for the public to understand, to supervise and to participate in government work, to make them trulyand deeply feel the dominant position of their ownership, to make citizen’s basicrights of supervising the government offices and their staff come true indeed. Aboveall, the public are the owners of the government performance evaluation power. Inrecent years, with the government performance evaluation wantonly popular in China,China’s political and economic construction promoted continuously, and the public’srights awareness improved constantly, issues of government performance evaluationpowers get an increasing attention.Based on the research of public accountability relationship between the governmentand the public, and the theoretical analysis of public accountability theory, this paperelaborates the concept and connotation of government performance evaluation power,and holds a detailed introduction on the characteristics, types and functions, etc. ofgovernment performance evaluation power as well. By studying the correlationbetween public accountability relation and government performance evaluation poweras well as its operation, puts forward that the public accountability theory is thetheoretical cornerstone of government performance evaluation power operation. Tryto explore the principles and general processes that should be followed during thepower’s operation process from the perspective of public accountability theory. Thenin the reflection of the dilemma and causes of our government performance evaluationpower operation meet with, proposes that by improving the government performanceevaluation mechanism, promoting the administrative system reform actively,cultivating government performance assessment social capital and so on, so as tostandardize and perfect the power operation mechanism of Chinese governmentperformance evaluation, which plays a significant role in making the dream ofachieving the responsible government, service-oriented government, law-basedgovernment, clean and efficient government become reality as soon as possible.