Analyzing the Operation of Performance-Based Accountability Systems for Public Services,

Author

Stecher; Brian M. ; Camm; Frank

Year

2010

Publisher

RAND Corporation

Type

BOOK

Description

Empirical evidence of the effects of performance-based public management is scarce. This report describes a framework used to organize available empirical information on one form of performance-based management, a performance-based accountability system (PBAS). Such a system identifies individuals or organizations that must change their behavior for the performance of an activity to improve, chooses an implicit or explicit incentive structure to motivate these organizations or individuals to change, and then chooses performance measures tailored to inform the incentive structure appropriately. The study focused on systems in the child-care, education, health-care, public health emergency preparedness, and transportation sectors, mainly in the United States. Analysts could use this framework to seek empirical information in other sectors and other parts of the world. Additional empirical information could help refine existing PBASs and, more broadly, improve decisions on where to initiate new PBASs, how to implement them, and then how to design, manage, and refine them over time.

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Analyzing the Operation of Performance-Based Accountability Systems for Public Services,

Description

On Learning; Volume 2, Philosophy; concepts and practices

Exile from the Grasslands

Exile from the Grasslands

Efter Tegnér

Efter Tegnér

Daily Life for the Common People of China, 1850 to 1950

Daily Life for the Common People of China, 1850 to 1950

Dynamiken politischer Imagination

Dynamiken politischer Imagination

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