Quicker better cheaper? : managing performance in American government /

Quicker better cheaper? : managing performance in American government /

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Imprint:Albany, NY. : Rockefeller Institute Press, c2001.
Description:x, 636 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Administrative agencies -- United States -- Management.
Government productivity -- United States.
Administrative agencies -- Management.
Government productivity.
United States.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4543902
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Other authors / contributors:Forsythe, Dall W., 1943-
ISBN:0914341855
0914341863 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 553-606) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • I. Introduction
  • 1. Introduction / Richard P. Nathan
  • 2. What Types of Performance Information Should be Tracked? / Harry P. Hatry
  • II. Performance Management and the Federal Government: Skeptics and Enthusiasts
  • 3. Getting Performance Measures to Measure Up / Allen Schick
  • 4. The Economics of Performance Incentives in Government with Evidence from a Federal Job Training Program / Gerald Marschke
  • 5. Implementing GPRA: Progress and Challenges / J. Christopher Mihm
  • 6. Restoring Government Integrity Through Performance, Results, and Accountability / Virginia L. Thomas
  • 7. The Social Security Administration and Performance Management / Walter D. Broadnax and Kevin J. Conway
  • III. Performance Management and the Federalism Challenge
  • 8. Performance Management: Does It Matter in the New World of Welfare? / L. Kate Boyer, Catherine Lawrence and Miriam Wilson
  • 9. Federalism and Performance Management: Health Insurance, Food Stamps, and the Take-Up Challenge / James Fossett, Thomas Gais and Frank J. Thompson
  • 10. Empowerment Zones and the Promise of Accountability / David J. Wright
  • 11. Intergovernmental Relationships and the Federal Performance Movement / Beryl A. Radin
  • IV. Performance Management in States and Local Government
  • 12. Beyond Measurement: Managing for Results in State Government / Patricia W. Ingraham and Donald P. Moynihan
  • 13. Performance Budgeting in the States / Katherine G. Willoughby and Julia E. Melkers
  • 14. Getting to Results in Florida / Robert B. Bradley and Geraldo Flowers
  • 15. Paying for Performance in Public Higher Education / Joseph C. Burke
  • 16. Performance Management in the New York City: Compstat and the Revolution in Police Management / Dennis C. Smith and William J. Bratton
  • V. Summing Up
  • 17. Is the New Obsession with Performance Management Masking the Truth About Social Programs? / Ann B. Blalock and Burt S. Barnow
  • 18. Pitfalls in Designing and Implementing Performance Management Systems / Dall W. Forsythe.

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