The Organizing Mode of Local Government Performance Evaluation and its influence on the forced abortion in China

In China it is well known that the one child policy in urban area and 2+1 policy in rural region have been executed for a long time in order to control the population increase. forced abortions happened in many places of China, which cannot be accidental or just results of some personal behaviors. But it is indeed hard to explain from the demographic or sociology perspectives. Based on the materials collected from an in-depth interview study on the local government performance evaluation which conducted in Gansu province during July 2012, this paper tries to explain the occurrence of forced abortion and the local government’s dilemma in fulfilling its goal of family planning policy from the angle of public management. And suggests the main cause is the biased government performance evaluation system. According to the theories of government performance evaluation, the local family planning departments do not have public value oriented practice, which is rooted from the fault of inappropriate organizing model of the local government performance evaluation. The PV-GPG (Public Value-based Government Performance Governance) model is introduced to solve this issue and improve the current organizing mode.