Evidence-based decision making and management have, in recent years, become a hot topic in the field of public administration. Evidence-based decision-making and management require us to attain evidence in scientific ways, therefore enabling decision-making and managing accordingly. Particular emphasis has been placed on the use of experimental and quasi-experimental approach, which has just internationally emerged and advanced rapidly, especially in the U.K. and U.S.A. The approach means the direction of the future theoretical research of public administration, thereby increasingly appearing in top conference/journals paper recently. Implementing effective evidence-based decision-making and management, however, faces multiple obstacles and challenges. It is a topic of great theoretical and practical significance that how we can better make use of evidence-based governance in advancing the modernization of China’s governance, thereby better serving the overall goal of deepening the reform.    

The objectives of the center are as follows:    

First, theoretical research. we aim to become a world-leading and first-class research and innovative base at home in the study of governance-based and public performance. We aim to delve into China’s public governance and performance scientifically, exploring the evidence-based decision-making and management, therefore boosting the domestic research and development of the evidence-based decision-making and management and improving the level and quality of public governance, advancing the deepening of reform and the modernization of the system and capacity of the state governance.