Measuring the Performance of the Hollow State (Public Management and Change series) - Softcover

Frederickson, David G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1589011198 ISBN 13: 9781589011199

Publisher: Georgetown University Press, 2006

Synopsis

This book provides the first in-depth analysis of a major federal management reform under the most difficult conditions for measuring performance and accountability: when government functions are contracted out to third parties. The authors systematically examine the workings of the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993, with consideration of the later Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) of 2002 in five agencies in U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. These programs represent much of the range of federal government organizational structures and a diverse array of third-party arrangements, including states, native American tribal leaderships, scientists, medical schools, and commercial and non-profit health intermediaries and carriers. The authors explore the development of performance measures in light of the mandates of each program, conflicting statutes, political considerations and obstacles, and conditions of intergovernmental relations (where applicable). Their findings illuminate two major questions in public management today: the uses and limitations of performance measurement as a policy and management tool in government and the management of third-party government.

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About the Author

David G. Frederickson is a program specialist in the program planning and results center in the U. S. Department of Labor. He has taught at Indiana University, George Washington University, and American University; worked as a visiting scholar at the Congressional Budget Office; and served as a White House intern. H. George Frederickson is the Edwin O. Stene Distinguished Professor of Public Administration at the University of Kansas. He has received the John Gaus Award, the Charles Levine Award, the Dwight Waldo Award, and the University of Kansas Irwin Youngbeng Award. In 2003-2004 he was the John G. Winant Visiting Professor of American Government at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. Among his publications are The Spirit of Public Administration, The Public Administration Theory Primer (coauthored with Kevin Smith), and Ethics in Public Management (coedited with Richard K. Ghere).

Edition details

• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1589011198
• ISBN 13: 9781589011199
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232