Abstract: With the advent of the era of public evaluation, citizens’ right to evaluation can be demonstrated. From the traditional government performance evaluation to the governance performance evaluation in the new era, the two-dimensional evaluation subjects of citizens and government need to be transformed simultaneously, so as to give full play to the role of governance performance evaluation in improving national governance performance. The two types of evaluation subjects are placed in the analysis framework constructed by the three-dimensional dimension of “field-value-role” to reveal the coping logic of different subjects: citizens and government need to adjust and change in the dimensions of governance (participation) field, value orientation and role positioning in time to meet the requirements and challenges of governance performance evaluation. At the same time, in evaluating governance performance we should also pay attention to the distortion of information technology to the governance field, to be vigilant against the erosion of public value by tool orientation, and to deal with the role tension caused by irrational evaluation behaviors, so as to promote the transformation of evaluative state.

Key words: governance performance evaluation, evaluative state, evaluation right, public evaluation