Government Performance

Why Management Matters
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8018-7228-0
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 299 g

Reihe: Johns Hopkins Studies in Governance and Public Management

Scholars and practitioners of public management have stressed the importance of such varied concepts as efficiency, process, systems, and capacity as key to running effective government programs. While acknowledging the usefulness of each of these criteria, the authors of Government Performance argue that one quality above all is crucial to the overall performance of government: effective management. Examining government performance at the federal, state, and local levels, the authors present analyses of public management systems in all fifty states, the thirty-five largest cities, forty large counties, and a number of federal agencies. They examine systems for financial management, human resources management, information technology management, capital management, and systems for managing results. While acknowledging the political context of all public administration systems, they argue that effective management of these systems nevertheless provides the key to good government performance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ingraham, Patricia W

Joyce, Philip G

Donahue, Amy Kneedler

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landespolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Management, Capacity, and Performance
Chapter 2. Dissecting Management
Chapter 3. Assessing Management
Chapter 4. Research Methodology
Chapter 5. State and Local Findings
Chapter 6. Federal Results
Chapter 7. The Big Lessons
Chapter 8. Next Steps

Über Autor(innen)

Ingraham, Patricia W
Patricia W. Ingraham is Founding Dean at the College of Community and Public Affairs, Binghamton University. She is the author of The Foundation of Merit: Public Service in American Democracy and coauthor of Government Performance: Why Management Matters, both published by Johns Hopkins.

Patricia W. Ingraham is Distinguished Professor of Public Administration in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Philip G. Joyce is an associate professor of public administration at the George Washington University. Amy Kneedler Donahue is an assistant professor of public administration and political science at the University of Connecticut.