The Use and Usefulness of Performance Measures in the Public Sector

By C. Propper, Deborah Wilson. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Public Administration

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Management Control, Results-Oriented Culture and Public Sector Performance: Empirical Evidence on New Public Management (2015, background): “Economists take a similar position, emphasizing the importance of contractibility and output measurability for performance contracting (Burgess & Ratto, 2003; Propper & Wilson, 2003; Tirole, 1994).”
Constitutive Effects of Performance Indicators: Getting beyond unintended consequences (2014, background): “More than 50 years ago, Ridgway (1956) pointed to dysfunctional consequences of performance measurement, and the same term is still in use (Feller, 2002; Propper and Wilson, 2002: 265).”
Revealed yardstick competition: Local government efficiency patterns in Norway (2007, background): “There exists a large parallel literature, though, on performance evaluation, management and benchmarking in public organizations (Courty and Marschke [19], Propper and Wilson [32]).”
What's measured is what matters: targets and gaming in the English public health care system (2006, result): “…1996; Power 1999), and in the English variant of governance by targets and performance indicators in the 2000s - in contrast to the Soviet model - semi-independent bodies of 4 (see Nove 1958; Miller 1992; Kornai 1994; Smith 1995; Heinrich 2002; Hood 2002; Propper and Wilson 2003; Bird et al. 2005).”
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).”