Assessing Open Government Performance through Three Public Administration Perspectives: Efficiency, Democratic Responsiveness, and Legal-rational Process

Open government is a growing feature of public administration in governments across the globe. Open government has long been considered vital to democratic society but, with the arrival of digital government, openness has become touted by governments that use information and communication technologies (ICT) without making the necessary legal and institutional reforms to support accountability and transparency. The intersection of openness and ICT challenges our approach to digital government in public administration practice and theory, and it calls for better theoretical frameworks to make sense of open government performance. In this paper, I propose a threefold framework of efficiency, democratic responsiveness, and legal-rational process. The framework is conceptually analyzed through four types of open government: budget transparency, citizen engagement, open data, and freedom of information. The analysis results in the creation of a set of measurement items that help to clarify important aspects of open government performance, and which can be used to generate indicators for evaluating open government initiatives. 开放政府越来越成为全球各国政府公共行政的特征。长期以来开放政府都被视为对民主社会至关重要但是随着数字政府的兴起政府利用信息与通讯技术去兜售 开放 却没有支持问责和透明所必需的法律和制度改革。开放与信息技术的互动对公共行政实践与理论的数字政府路径提出了挑战并需要更好的评价开放政府绩效的理论框架。笔者在本文提出了一个三维框架包括效率、民主回应和法律—理性过程。通过四种类型的开放政府笔者对该框架进行了概念分析包括预算透明、公众参与、开放数据和信息自由。本文通过分析得到一系列测量题项有助于澄清开放政府绩效的关键领域并可用于开发评价开放政府项目的指标。 .   . . . , . , , . .  .