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Governance and Performance: New Perspectives - Softcover

 
9780878407996: Governance and Performance: New Perspectives
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0878407995 ISBN 13: 9780878407996
Publisher: Georgetown University Press, 2000

Synopsis

Drawing on recent advances in the social sciences, this volume shows how rigorous, theory-based empirical research can help improve the management of public policies and programs - and how better governance can lead to better performance. These original essays demonstrate how better data and improved statistical techniques have allowed researchers to construct more complex models of governance processes and thereby assess the effects of many variables on policy and program outcomes. They present useful research results that illuminate such issues as automatic grade advancement in public schools, management of federally-funded job-training programs, reducing welfare caseloads, and management of welfare-to-work programs. Illustrating a range of theoretical and methodological possibilities, this book shows how more sophisticated research in public management can help improve government performance.

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About the Author

Carolyn J. Heinrich is assistant professor of public policy analysis at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Laurence E. Lynn, Jr., is Sydney Stein, Jr. Professor of Public Management at the University of Chicago.

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Publisher
Georgetown University Press
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0878407995
ISBN 13 
9780878407996
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
368
Editor
Heinrich Carolyn J., Lynn Jr. Laurence E.