Abstract: Appraisal and commendation is a typical phenomenon in the field of social governance, so how to scientifically interpret its governance connotation has important theoretical and practical significance. The framework of “compound governance” was put forward to explain the action logic of local appraisal and commendation. The research found that the responsibility incentives and constraints generated by the superior evaluation and commendation project are the external driving force for the overall governance of local evaluation and commendation. The overall governance is the rational response choice for the governance of local evaluation and commendation projects, presenting the integration of core logic, vertical logic and horizontal logic. Among them, the establishment of local assessment project leadership groups to integrate party and government forces is the core driving force for effective appraisal and commendation, which promotes the integration of horizontal and vertical governance resources; the coupling of blocks and the shaping of system linkage effects are the vertical integration logic for local appraisal and commendation for compound governance; seeking governance consensus construction and seeking governance resources are the horizontal integration logic of compound governance.