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Can't You Count? Public Service Delivery and Standardized Measurement Challenges - The Case of Community Composting

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  • Rachel Slater
  • Mike Aiken

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Performance measurement is increasingly important for UK third sector organizations (TSOs) driven in part by policymakers' interest in harnessing them as deliverers of public services. This article examines a developing and little researched constituency of TSOs - community composters - which has become attractive to policymakers facing obligations to reduce, recycle, and reuse waste. The research, which included the first extensive survey of this constituency combined with a purposive case study investigation, found a highly diverse set of organizations. The analysis proposes five types of community composters and explores the challenges to developing a standardized measurement regime.

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  • Rachel Slater & Mike Aiken, 2015. "Can't You Count? Public Service Delivery and Standardized Measurement Challenges - The Case of Community Composting," Public Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(8), pages 1085-1102, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:pubmgr:v:17:y:2015:i:8:p:1085-1102
    DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2014.881532
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    1. Mercedes Ruiz-Lozano & Pilar Tirado-Valencia & Antonio Sianes & Antonio Ariza-Montes & Vicente Fernández-Rodríguez & Mª Carmen López-Martín, 2020. "SROI Methodology for Public Administration Decisions about Financing with Social Criteria. A Case Study," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(3), pages 1-16, February.
    2. Bauwens, Thomas & Hekkert, Marko & Kirchherr, Julian, 2020. "Circular futures: What Will They Look Like?," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 175(C).
    3. Cecilia Bruni & Çağrı Akyol & Giulia Cipolletta & Anna Laura Eusebi & Donatella Caniani & Salvatore Masi & Joan Colón & Francesco Fatone, 2020. "Decentralized Community Composting: Past, Present and Future Aspects of Italy," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(8), pages 1-20, April.

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