Abstract: Local government performance is an important scale for measuring local government governance and how to improve it poses a difficult question for both researchers and practitioners. Viewing the reality of a civil societys development， the research perspective of local government performance should shift from management to governance. Based on a comparative analysis of the management perspective and the governance perspective of the dynamic mechanisms of local government performance， a model of local government performance governance was formulated， based on which， the traditional local government management system was examined and the governance mechanisms and ways to their implementation were illustrated. Thus a new theoretical perspective of local government performance research was provided.

Key words: local government, performance management, governance