Politicians in Search of Performance Information?‐ Survey Research on Dutch Aldermen's Use of Performance Information

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Performance Management in Universities: Effects of the Transition to More Quantitative Measurement Systems (2012, background): “There has, however, been a considerable amount of research on performance measurement in the public sector generally (for a summary, see Carter, 1991; Propper and Wilson, 2003; ter Bogt, 2003, 2004; Johnsen, 2005; Pollitt, 2006; de Bruijn, 2007).”
Management Control, Results-Oriented Culture and Public Sector Performance: Empirical Evidence on New Public Management (2015, background): “Ter Bogt (2004) observes that these politicians are not heavy users of formal performance measurement systems, but rely on informal, verbal communication as their preferred source of information.”
Drivers of Performance Information Use: Systematic Literature Review and Directions for Future Research (2015, background): “It will also focus on data use by managers, and consequently exclude other user groups, like politicians (Askim, 2009; ter Bogt, 2004) or citizens (Ho, 2008; James, 2011), as well as studies from the areas of business and accounting (Broadbent & Laughlin, 2009; Marchand, Kettinger, & Rollins, 2002)…”
Institutional isomorphism, negativity bias and performance information use by politicians: A survey experiment (2020, background): “Indeed, some studies have focused on the purposes and—to some extent—the conditions under which politicians use performance information (e.g., Ter Bogt 2004; Askim 2009).”