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Performance Measurement in Public Governance

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  • Willem Trommel
  • Taco Brandsen

    (Tilburg University, PO Box 90153, NL-5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands)

  • Mirjan van Heffen-Oude Vrielink
  • Maaike Moulijn

    (Faculty of Business, Public Administration and Technology, Department of Sociology, University of Twente, Capitool PO Box 217, NL-7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands)

Abstract

The paper examines four different cases in which performance measurement has been applied within a process of policy reform. The cases will demonstrate that a large variety of mechanisms may underlie the use of performance measurement instruments, ranging from institutional imitation to political pressures. They show that it is insufficient to study performance measurement problems merely from the classical principal-agent perspective, simply because governance systems frequently lack an institutionalised principal-agent relationship. One must travel down new avenues of research to understand this phenomenon more fully, a journey for which this paper provides some preliminary directions.

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  • Willem Trommel & Taco Brandsen & Mirjan van Heffen-Oude Vrielink & Maaike Moulijn, 2004. "Performance Measurement in Public Governance," Society and Economy, Akadémiai Kiadó, Hungary, vol. 26(2-3), pages 195-221, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:aka:soceco:v:26:y:2004:i:2-3:p:195-221
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