
Government Performance
Why Management Matters
Johns Hopkins University Press
Published on 14. November 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
216 pages
978-0-8018-7228-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
This slim volume, a seminal study, provides a positive picture of public managers eager to learn and to create management capacity, which is posited as the key to governmental performance... A must read for students of public management. Choice 2004 The authors of this volume argue that one quality above all is crucial to the overall performance of government: effective management. International Review of Administrative Sciences An ambitious and well-publicized attempt to define criteria for measuring government performance... Well argued and rich in material. -- Sandford Borins Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 2004More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore, MD
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
4 s/w Abbildungen
4 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 227 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
299 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8018-7228-0 (9780801872280)
DOI
10.56021/9780801872273
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Patricia W. Ingraham | Philip G. Joyce | Amy Kneedler Donahue
Government Performance
Why Management Matters
Book
11/2003
Johns Hopkins University Press
€66.43
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Persons
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.
Author
College of Community and Public Affairs
The George Washington University
University of Connecticut
Content
Contents: 1. Management, Capacity, and Performance 2. Dissecting Management 3. Assessing Management 4. Research Methodology 5. State and Local Findings 6. Federal Results 7. The Big Lessons 8. Next Steps