Performance Management in Governance Networks—Critical Concepts and Practices
Published on Jun 1, 2011in Public Performance & Management Review2.745
· DOI :10.2753/PMR1530-9576340404
Abstract
References10
Newest
What do public administrators and policy analysts have in common? Their work is undertaken within networks formed when different organizations align to accomplish some kind of policy function. To be effective, they must find ways to navigate complexity and generate effective results. Governance Networks in Public Administration and Public Policy describes a variety of trends and movements that have contributed to the complexity of these systems and the challenges that must be faced as a result. ...
The increasing importance of network governance challenges researchers to rethink the meaning of responsiveness in the theory and practice of public administration. This article, as an introduction to a mini-symposium on this topic, presents an overview of the concept, the theme, and the symposium. It briefly reviews the concept of responsiveness in recent public administration theories, outlines how network governance affects our thinking of responsiveness, and introduces the four symposium art...
Introduction E.Sorensen & J.Torfing Theoretical Approaches to Governance Network Dynamics E.Sorensen & J.Torfing Mechanisms of Governance Network Formation: A Contextual Rational Choice Perspective N.Hertting Virtuous and Viscous Circles in Democratic Network Governance B.G.Peters Decentred Theory, Change and Network Governance M.Bevir & R.A.W.Rhodes Theoretical Approaches to Governance Network Failure E.Sorensen & J.Torfing Closure and Governance L.Schaap Consensus and Conflict in Policy Networ...
IllustrationsAcknowledmentsAbbreviations and Acronyms 1. Introduction: Federal Performance Measurement 2. Setting the Stage: Third Parties, Fiscal Federalsim, and Accountability 3. Performance Measurement as Political and Administrative Reform 4. Performance as Grants to Third-Party Service Providers: The Health Resources and Services Administration 5.Performance as the Provision of Health Financial Security: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid 6. Performance as Grants to Third Party Research ...
List of TablesPreface 1. The Ubiquitous Nature of Performance 2. The Performance Mindset 3. One Size Fits All 4. Demeaning Professionals: Throwing Out the Baby with the Bathwater? 5. Competing Values: Can the Performance Movement Deal with Equity? 6. The Reality of Fragmentation: Power and Authority in the U.S. Political System 7. Intergovernmental Relationships: Power and Authority in the U.S. Political System 8. Information, Interests, and Ideology 9. Competing Values in a Global Context: Perf...
This text is an introduction to complexity theory and its application to public services management. In a clear and comprehensible manner it: argues that the complexity of the public policy process limits the usefulness of the 'new public management' approach; challenges management techniques used in key areas of the public sector, such as performance management, staff development leadership, strategic management and the use of IT; and proposes alternative approaches that are based on a correct ...
Tables, Figures, and Exhibits. Preface. The Author. Part 1: The Management Framework for Performance Measurement. 1. Introduction to Performance Measurement. 2. Developing Effective Performance Measurement Systems. Part 2: Methodological Elements of Performance Measurement. 3. Identifying Real Outcomes and Other Performance Measures. 4. Clarifying Program Goals and Objectives. 5. Defining Performance Indicators. 6. Analyzing Performance Data. 7. Reporting Performance Data. 8. Processing Performa...
Cited By8
Newest
The Price of Protecting Forests : Assessing REDD+ Performance in Collaborative Governance in Vietnam
The UNFCCC initiated mechanism Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) is an important policy instrument for combating climate change, using payments to create economic ...
Reconceptualizing Responsiveness for Network Governance: Insights from Cross-Sector Efforts to Assist the Displaced Population From Puerto Rico in Central Florida
Strategies to Improve Marine Inspection Performance in the U.S. Coast Guard by Joshua Wayne Buck MS, Trident University International, 2008 BS, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, 2005 Study Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Business Administration
Experiments in collaborative governance over the last several decades have transformed the way the public’s business is getting done. Despite growing interest, empirical research on the performance of cross-boundary collaboration continues to be limited by conceptual and methodological challenges. This article extends previous research to develop a performance matrix for assessing the productivity of collaborative governance regimes (CGRs). Three performance levels (actions, outcomes, and adapta...
New participatory, interactive, and less direct forms of governing seem currently to be unfolding in many liberal democracies. Some scholars have tried to conceptualize these forms of governing by using the notion of new public governance (NPG). While promising, the notion remains conceptually underdeveloped. This article first aims to develop NPG from an empirical to an analytical concept that enables categorization and evaluation of new forms of governing. In order to gauge the full scope of t...
To Produce, Co-produce, Enable or Co-enable? The Art of Balancing Managerial Action in Inter-Organizational Networks
This paper focuses on the practice of network management. Applying the action research methodology, a study of eight elderly care development networks in two cities in Finland is presented. The results address two key managerial questions: Should the focus be on what or how? and Should network participants perform together or should some participants work on behalf of the network? These two questions are shown to relate to two of the most fundamental dimensions of any network management circumst...
Networks are many things1, but certainly an important feature in contemporary government. In an era of collaboration, as Agranoff and McGuire (2003) 2 label it, governments are increasingly networked, using and engaging in all sorts of networks to achieve policy goals. Often, working in and through networks is regarded as the best or even only way to solve wicked problems (Goldsmith & Eggers, 2004). However, at the same time, criticism towards networks as a problem-solving strategy seems to incr...
Multifaceted social problems such as safety, social inclusion, poverty, mobility, rural development, city regeneration, or labour market integration require integrated approaches to steering. NPM-related fragmentation of policy and fragmentation of implementation lead to unsatisfactory public outcomes and a heightened experienced loss of control on the part of policy makers. Governments are therefore looking for new instruments to address the boundary-spanning nature of many social problems. In ...