A Study On The Performance Evaluation Mechanism Of County-Level Governments

Government performance management has become a hot issue in the reform and development of modern public administration among which performance evaluation plays a crucial role. Since 1970s, in the process of carrying out public management reform, performance evaluation has become an effective method to improve government management for some countries such as America and Britain. It can promote the government to change administrative concept, improve the relationship between the government and society, increase the management level and enhance the effect of the government administration.Under the influence of the western performance evaluation upsurge, Chinese government has made an exploration and experiment, with numerous government performance evaluation theories gradually raised. As an indispensable part of the central government , county government plays an important role in local management. The level of its administrative performance is closely related to the political and social stability of an area even the whole country. With the further development of reform and opening up as well as the gradual establishment and perfection of socialist market economy system, county government has encountered many difficulties and problems in the process of carrying out performance evaluation.How to solve these problems, insist on service administration and responsible, effective, legislative administration,provide high-quality public goods and services for the county community , continuously meet its needs, set up a scientific, systematic and long-term performance evaluation system for the county government has become a significant issue.By firstly introducing major contributions to this research area made by both academic circle and theoretical foundation of this research, this paper analyzes the current situation and the problems existing in our current performance evaluation system of the country government. Then, from the level of internal management and stimulation, function orientation, and external supervision, the performance evaluation standard of the country government and work department is analyzed. Finally, some effective measures are put forward to establish and improve a global-scope, three-dimentional and comprehensive performance evaluation system for the country government.