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Author: Catherine. Neuman et al.
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Publish Date: 2003-09-02
Features: This book is set against the backdrop of the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 passed by the U.S. Congress, exploring, analyzing, and introducing the concepts, methods, and implementation outcomes of performance measurement in the U.S. federal government, state governments, local governments, and other public sectors. The nine chapters of the book are as follows:
① Meeting the Challenges of Performance-Oriented Government;
② Letting Results Work in Public and Nonprofit Organizations; Balancing Performance with Other Values;
③ Beyond Plans, Commitments, and Good Intentions: Infusing Results-Oriented Management in the Federal Government;
④ Government Performance: Hidden Agendas and Structural Constraints;
⑤ Introducing Performance Information into Budgets; Analyzing Conceptual Frameworks and Investigating Recent State Experiences;
⑥ Consequence Measurement in the Nonprofit Sector: Recent Developments, Incentives, and Challenges;
⑦ Engaging Citizens in Achieving Key Results: An Effective Model for 21st-Century Government Governance;
⑧ Is a Performance-Oriented Government Democratic?
⑨ Performance-Oriented Government: An Agenda for Practice and Research.
China's "political reform" has sent out signals this year, with the Shenzhen Municipal Government tasked with reforming the government through the "Administrative Three-Division System." The main content of this reform is to divide administrative management functions into decision-making, implementation, and supervision. The workload of performance appraisal and auditing will increase significantly. Moreover, how to measure and evaluate the performance of decision-making and implementation has become a global challenge. It is believed that the ideas, perspectives, and some practices provided in this book regarding U.S. performance measurement will offer certain inspiration and reference value for Chinese public management theorists, students (including MPA students), and practitioners in government and other public sectors. Most of the 16 authors of the original book are well-known experts, scholars, and government officials in the field of U.S. performance measurement.