Construction of an evaluation system for information openness of local governments

• 来源期刊: 中国文献情报（英文刊）
• 关键词: Freedom of information Information openness Government openness Evaluation indicator system Content analysis
• 年，卷（期）: 2011,（1）
• 页码范围: 28-49
• 页数: 22页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Evaluating government openness is important in monitoring government performance and promoting government transparency.Therefore,it is necessary to develop an evaluation system for information openness of local governments.In order to select evaluation indicators,we conducted a content analysis on current evaluation systems constructed by researchers and local governments and the materials of a case study on a local government.This evaluation system is composed of 5 first-tier indicators,30 secondtier indicators and 69 third-tier indicators.Then Delphi Method and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) Method are adopted to determine the weight of each indicator.At last,the practicability of the system is tested by an evaluation of the local government of Tianjin Binhai New Area,which has been undergoing administrative reform and attempting to reinvent itself in the past 5 years.