Performance Reviews, Public Accountability, and Green Governance
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Performance Reviews, Public Accountability, and Green Governance. / Delman, Jørgen.
Greening China’s Urban Governance. Tackling Environmental and Sustainability Challenges. ed. / Jørgen Delman; Yuan Ren; Outi Luova; Mattias Burrell; Oscar Almén. Singapore : Springer Publishing Company, 2019. p. 151-173 (ARI - Springer Asia Series, Vol. 7).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Performance Reviews, Public Accountability, and Green Governance
AU - Delman, Jørgen
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - 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 intourban 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.
AB - 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 intourban 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.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Hangzhou, China
KW - Eco-civilization
KW - Environmental policy implementation gap
KW - Performance reviews and results management
KW - Public accountability
KW - Green urban governance
UR - https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-981-13-0740-9
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-13-0740-9
DO - 10.1007/978-981-13-0740-9
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-981-13-0739-3
T3 - ARI - Springer Asia Series
SP - 151
EP - 173
BT - Greening China’s Urban Governance. Tackling Environmental and Sustainability Challenges
A2 - Delman, Jørgen
A2 - Ren, Yuan
A2 - Luova, Outi
A2 - Burrell, Mattias
A2 - Almén, Oscar
PB - Springer Publishing Company
CY - Singapore
ER -
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