EVALUATING THE PERFORMANCE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT
EVALUATING THE PERFORMANCE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT
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评估地方政府的绩效
DOI：
10.1080/01442870601009939
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发表时间：
2006
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影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
I. McLean
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作者：
D. Haubrich;I. McLean
与大多数其他工业化国家相比，英国政府最重视地方当局的绩效评估，以此作为确保教育、社会服务、住房、文化和福利管理等领域的高水平公共服务标准和公共支出效率的工具。由英格兰审计委员会公布的年度综合业绩评估现在是中央-地方政府关系的一个组成部分。相比之下，威尔士和苏格兰在后权力下放时代走上了不同的道路，并制定了规范性更低、侵入性更低、更依赖自我评估的评估框架。借鉴20个半结构化的精英采访审计师，审计对象，和其他利益相关者在这三个国家，本文评估各自的评估制度的经验教训。它还严格评估了从2008年起取代英国CPA制度的计划，该制度模仿威尔士和苏格兰风格的自我评估，由审计对象自己进行。
Compared with most other industrialised nations, the UK government places greatest weight on performance assessments of local authorities as a tool to ensure high levels of public service standards and efficiency of public spending in areas such as education, social services, housing, culture, and benefits administration. Annual comprehensive performance assessments (CPA), published by the Audit Commission for England, are now an integral part of the central–local government nexus. By contrast, Wales and Scotland have embarked on different routes in the post-devolution era and have developed assessment frameworks that are much less prescriptive, less intrusive, and more reliant on self-assessment. Drawing on 20 semi-structured elite interviews with auditors, auditees, and other stakeholders in the three nations, this article evaluates the lessons learned from the respective assessment regimes. It also assesses critically the plans to replace the English CPA system from 2008 onwards with a regime that emulates Wales and Scotland-style self-assessments carried out by auditees themselves.