In times of rising expectations and decreasing resources for the public sector, performance
management is high on the agenda. Increasingly, the value of the performance …

Efficiency. Innovation. Results. Accountability. These, advocates claim, are the fruits of
performance management. In recent decades government organizations have eagerly …

Governments increasingly require administrators to develop outcome measurements that
reflect a program's impact on society. But standard approaches to performance …

This article examines the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) in the federal budgeting
process. The early evidence on PART prompts the search for a theory of budgeting that …

Nonprofit organizations receiving government contracts are now central to the provision of a
host of public services, including community care, workforce development, substance abuse …

In recent decades, governments have invested in the creation of two forms of knowledge
production about government performance: program evaluations and performance …

This thesis set out to examine the role played by monitoring and evaluation (M&E) in
promoting good governance in South Africa. It examined how M&E, in promoting democratic …

Public agencies have discretion on the time domain, and politicians deploy numerous policy
instruments to constrain it. Yet little is known about how administrative procedures that affect …

The “performance movement” has been a subject of enthusiasm and frustration for
evaluators. Performance measurement, data analytics, and program evaluation have been …

Performance measurement is widely accepted in public health as an important management
tool supporting program improvement and accountability. However, several challenges …