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Political Economy Perspectives on Performance Measurement

In: Performance Management

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  • Tony Bovaird

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This chapter explores the conceptual basis for performance measurement within political economy. It shows that competing perspectives in economic theory suggest different approaches to measuring performance — and that some perspectives even suggest such measurement is irrelevant or potentially counter-productive. It explores how key concepts in performance measurement are handled differently in each school of political economy, highlights the self-reinforcing nature of many of the questions asked within political economy, and offers some lessons from conflicting paradigms of performance measurement.

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  • Tony Bovaird, 2008. "Political Economy Perspectives on Performance Measurement," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Richard Thorpe & Jacky Holloway (ed.), Performance Management, chapter 14, pages 184-199, Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-28894-2_14
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230288942_14
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    1. Asmaa ATA & David Carassus, 2023. "Pour en finir avec l'Arlésienne de la gestion de la performance : la proposition d'une mesure globale et opérationnelle de la performance publique par sa chaîne de valeur," Post-Print hal-04344541, HAL.

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