Performance Reviews, Public Accountability, and Green Governance

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The study asks whether Hangzhou’s system of public sector performance reviews promotes sustainability governance. The author begins by examining how ideas and concepts relating to sustainable urban development are incorporated into
urban development programmes in Hangzhou. The chapter then turns to analyse the design of the system for performance reviews of party-state organizations and their leaders. Performance reviews comprise various measures for performance assessment and performance management. In addition, however, they have come increasingly to involve social participation, in order to allow for the public’s voice and public participation in governance. The analysis demonstrates how the public performance review system in Hangzhou has potential to incentivize major government departments working with sustainability-related issues to toe the green Communist Party line, and how innovative provisions to enhance the public accountability of the local administration may help promote local environmental governance. This may pave the way for narrowing the well-known implementation gap in connection with implementation of urban environmental policies.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelGreening China’s Urban Governance. Tackling Environmental and Sustainability Challenges
RedaktørerJørgen Delman, Yuan Ren, Outi Luova, Mattias Burrell, Oscar Almén
Antal sider22
UdgivelsesstedSingapore
ForlagSpringer Publishing Company
Publikationsdato1 jan. 2019
Sider151-173
Kapitel8
ISBN (Trykt)978-981-13-0739-3
ISBN (Elektronisk)978-981-13-0740-9
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 1 jan. 2019
NavnARI - Springer Asia Series
Vol/bind7

    Forskningsområder

  • Det Humanistiske Fakultet - Hangzhou, China, Eco-civilization, Environmental policy implementation gap, Performance reviews and results management, Public accountability, Green urban governance

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