How to Evaluate Government Performance While Constructing a Rule of Law Government in China＊  

作　　者：Zheng Fanghui Shang Huping 

机构地区：[1]School of Public Administration, South China University of Technology [2]School of Politics andPublic Administration, Soochow University

出　　处：《Social Sciences in China》2017年第4期5-27,共23页中国社会科学（英文版）

摘　　要：Constructing a law-based government is a core element of the comprehensive framework for promoting the rule of law in China, while using evaluation to catalyze growth is in line with the incentive principle of management studies. Since China started to implement reform and opening up over thirty years ago, rule of law development and organizational evaluation have gone through several stages, each with different characteristics. Efforts to build a law-based government have met with success, but what the country now has is essentially still goal-oriented assessment. At present, this suffers from the lack of a clear goal orientation or definition of functions, an imperfect technical system and unsound motivation mechanisms, not to mention the practical problems of each government department going its own way, duplicating evaluations or being left rudderless. Drawing on a combination of value rationality and instrumental rationality and using government performance evaluation to promote the building of a law-based government not only conforms to the spirit of the rule of law and value rationality in government performance, but also strengthens the role of evaluation as an instrument for organizational management. Therefore, we need to create new evaluation theories, expand public participation, introducing diversified evaluating entities, improve technical systems, strengthen institutional buildup, and foster a performance-based culture. In addition, replacing goal-oriented assessment with performance evaluation will help the emergence of a new discipline--the performance evaluation of rule of law government, thus promoting multidisciplinary efforts to integrate and create new public administration theories in China.法治政府建设是全面依法治国的核心内容。以评促成符合管理激励原理。我国改革开放30多年来法治建设及组织考评的演进历程，历经了多个阶段，呈现出不同特征，有效地促进了法治政府建设，但其本质上还是目标性考评。目前存在的目标导向及功能定位不明确、技术体系不完善、动力机制不健全等问题，甚至形成各自为政、重复考评、无所适从等现实困境。基于价值理性与工具理性的双重耦合，以政府绩效评价推进法治政府建设既体现法治精神及政府绩效的价值理性，又强化了考评作为组织管理的工具属性。为此，应创新评价理论，扩大公众参与，引入多元评价主体，完善技术体系，加强制度建设，培育绩效文化。同时，从目标考评到绩效评价的转变，有助于衍生一门新的学科一法治政府绩效评价学，从而进一步推进我国公共管理理论跨学科的融合与创新。

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