Government Performance - Why Management Matters

Public management experts have stressed the importance of such varied concepts as efficiency, process, systems, and capacity as key to effective government. The authors of Government Performance argue, however, that one quality above all is crucial to government performance: effective management. To prove their point, they offer in-depth quantitative analyses of public management systems in all fifty states, thirty-five cities, forty counties, and a number of federal agencies, examining management systems for finances, human resources, information technology, and capital, as well as how results are managed.

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About the author

Patricia W. Ingraham is Founding Dean at the College of Community and Public Affairs, Binghamton University. She is the author of The Foundation of Merit: Public Service in American Democracy and coauthor of Government Performance: Why Management Matters, both published by Johns Hopkins.

Summary

While acknowledging the political context of all public administration systems, they argue that effective management of these systems nevertheless provides the key to good government performance.

Product details

• Authors: Amy Kneedler Donahue, Amy Kneedler (University of Connecticut) Donahue, Mark Q. Gardiner, Patricia W Ingraham, Patricia W. Ingraham, Patricia W. (College of Community and Pu Ingraham, Patricia W. (College of Community and Public Affairs) Ingraham, Patricia W. Joyce Ingraham, Philip G Joyce, Philip G. Joyce, Philip G. (The George Washington University) Joyce
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.11.2003
• EAN: 9780801872280
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-7228-0
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in Gover; Johns Hopkins Studies in Governance and Public Management; Johns Hopkins Studies in Governance and Public Management; Johns Hopkins Studies in Gover
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education