Challenging the performance movement
Subtitle: accountability, complexity, and democratic values
By: Beryl A. Radin.
Series: Public management and change series; Public management and change.
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781589010918
Subjects: Organizational effectiveness -- Measurement.; Administrative agencies -- Management -- Evaluation.; Performance.; Performance technology -- Political aspects -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The performance mindset; title: One size fits all; title: Demeaning professions : throwing out the baby with the bathwater?; title: Competing values : can the performance movement deal with equity?; title: Power and authority in the US political system : the reality of fragmentation; title: Power and authority in the US political system : intergovernmental relationships; title: Information, interests and ideology; title: Competing values in a global context : performance activities in the World Bank; title: Conflicting patterns of assumptions : where do we go from here?