Research on Chinese Local Government Performance Evaluation: The Evaluation of Journal Publication (2001-2011)

Local government performance evaluation has become an important part of building a service-oriented government in China, is the powerful weapon of changing local government function, improving the administrative management level and the management efficiency as well. However, at present, as we are still on the primary stage of our local government performance evaluation research, we have had a lot weak points in theory construction and practice operation. This article analyzes and summaries the Chinese government performance evaluation literature that data from the CNKI social science databases between 2001 and 2011, in order to evaluate the Chinese government performance evaluation research. The result shows that, the research on Chinese government performance evaluation presents characteristics as following: slow research progress lack of concentration and continuity; relatively single of research angle lack of scientific research methods; theorized and conceptional research content lack of empirical research; The academic standardization should be further enhanced, while research are at the primary stage. Based on the above conclusions, this paper puts forward some proposals aims at improving Chinese government performance evaluation research.