Case study of the role of third-party evaluators in performance-based budgeting reform at the local government level in China

Zhao, Zaozao

doi:10.22459/vm.01.2018.14

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“…Studies show that the third-party organisations have played an important role in performance-based budgeting management. They offer necessary support to local governments that have limited administrative capacity to collect and analyse performance data on project operation (Zhao 2018). Another example is the reform in air pollution control.…”

Section: Tackling Data Manipulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

China’s approach to performance management and future directions

Gao¹

2023

Dilemmas in Public Management in Greater China and Australia: Rising Tensions but Common Challenges

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This chapter examines China's approach to performance management during the past four decades, with a focus on the important changes before and after Xi Jinping came to power. It argues that China's approach has been to reconcile two competing theories in performance managementthe principal-agent model and the principal-steward model. The two models differ in their core assumptions about how political principals should motivate and monitor bureaucratical behaviour, and therefore provide a useful perspective to understanding China's evolving approach. This chapter shows that the national leadership before Xi Jinping strove to develop a principal-agent system in performance management and saw that model as useful for resolving the problems rooted in China's patronagebased cadre management system. However, such an approach also brings classic principal-agent problems to cadre management and local governance. Xi's reform approach, by contrast, emphasises the value of the stewardship system that has contributed to the success of the Chinese Communist Party's rule, such as maintaining intrinsic incentives, loyalty and trust of the cadre corps. This chapter concludes by discussing critical issues in advancing China's performance management reforms in the decades to come.

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Section: Tackling Data Manipulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

China’s approach to performance management and future directions

Gao¹

2023

Dilemmas in Public Management in Greater China and Australia: Rising Tensions but Common Challenges

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“…The most critical issues affecting the implementation of the PBB are human and financial capacities (Hawkesworth et al, 2011; Zhao, 2018). In PBB, the human resource capacity “to collect and analyse data, to write reports and, more generally, to manage budget processes and administer programs and projects” (Zhao, 2018, p. 299), is paramount for the programs’ success.…”

Section: Challenges In Implementing Pbbmentioning

confidence: 99%

The perception of employees on performance‐based budgeting reforms in developing countries: The perspective from Ghana

Ohemeng

Asiedu

Obuobisa‐Darko

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Public Budgeting & Finance

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In the last few decades, the use of performance management to correct state finances has led to the (re)emergence of performance‐based budgeting (PBB), with the belief that it will reveal where scarce resources should be concentrated. The efficacy of PBB, however, continues to be debated. This paper attempts to contribute to the discussion, by examining the case of Ghana from the perspective of budget officers. How do budget officers perceive the PBB? It is argued that while PBB is professed as a useful budgetary mechanism, there are challenges that need to be addressed if it is to achieve its objectives.

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“…Informal processes (such as 'small leading groups' [Yan and Wu 2020]) as well as formal institutional arrangements provide means for horizontal management at local levels. And to enhance local capability, there is increasing use of external support from civil society and academia (Zhao 2018;Shen and Yu 2016) though there are also moves to increase party involvement in NGOs (Shen, Yu and Zhou 2020). Given China's size, and its huge transition agenda constrained by legacies such as its historic rural/urban divide, its intergovernmental arrangements are understandably complex and fluid.…”

Section: Different Context Similar Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%