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Government Performance
Why Management Matters
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.
About the Authors
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.
Reviews
"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."
"The authors of this volume argue that one quality above all is crucial to the overall performance of government: effective management."
"An ambitious and well-publicized attempt to define criteria for measuring government performance... Well argued and rich in material."
Endorsements
"Taking the ambitious and unique approach of using empirical analysis to identify the key linkages between public management and effective policy performance, this book offers students a larger and more reliable set of empirical guideposts and prescriptions than have ever before been available. This is a bold project that goes beyond any earlier effort to define and measure the qualities of government that yield effective public policy, and there is much for all of us to learn here."
"The book's theme is an important and timely one: that management matters and that management reform would be most fruitfully approached as a long-term building of competencies and components necessary to effect change. The qualitative and quantitative data have been used to craft one of the more comprehensive and integrated pictures of management available in the field. In undertaking such a project, and succeeding as they have, the authors have done an enormous service to the field."
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Other Titles by Patricia W. Ingraham
In Pursuit of Performance
The Art of Governance
The Foundation of Merit
Other Titles by Philip G. Joyce
The Congressional Budget Office
Other Titles from Johns Hopkins Studies in Governance and Public Management
Bureaucratic Ambition
Democracy and Administration
Madison's Managers
Other Titles in POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General
Parliamentary America
Conservative Thought and American Constitutionalism since the New Deal
Defending the Republic
Other Titles in Politics & government
The Antislavery Movement in Kentucky
Alexander Gumberg and Soviet-American Relations
How to Become a Big Man in Africa