PSG II: Performance in Public Sector

Welcome and introduction

Gerhard HAMMERSCHMID & René GEISSLER, Hertie School of Governance (Germany)

The Perception of Performance Management in German Public Administration – Results from an Executive Survey in Federal and State Government

Gael SANDRIN & Franck GUARNIERI, Mines Paris Tech (France)

Setting up internal control in French state administration: deficiencies and prospects for a performance instrument

Ringa RAUDLA, Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia)

The Use of Performance Information in Budgetary Decision-Making by Legislators: Is Estonia Any Different?

Alexander KROLL, University of Potsdam (Germany)

Explaining the Use of Performance Information by Public Managers: A Planned-Behavior Approach

Iris SALITERER & Sanja KORAC, Klagenfurt University (Austria)

Performance information use – Who, why and what for?: Insights from a nation-wide multiple informant survey at the local government level

Åge JOHNSEN, Oslo and Akershus University (Norway)

Does politics matter? Determinants of performance management in Norwegian municipalities

Chris GAME, University of Birmingham (UK)

12.6 million annual data returns per council: A measure of local government performance measurement in the UK

Hans de GROOT, University of Twente (The Netherlands) & Bart L. van HULST, Delft University (The Netherlands)

Performance Management and Cost-effectiveness of Public Services: Empirical evidence from Dutch municipalities

Rick ANDERSON, Business School INHolland (The Netherlands); Henk KLAASSEN, Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands) & Herbert MAKS, Business School INHolland (The Netherlands)

The fallacy of context

Mauricio I. DUSSAUGE LAGUNA, London School of Economics and Political Science Government (UK)

Democratisation and Performance-Based Policies: Chile and Mexico in comparative perspective

Priscilla Reinisch PERDICARIS, Fundação Getúlio Vargas (Brazil)

Performance Management as Public Policy:  An analysis of the Agenda Setting and Elaboration of Alternatives in Brazilian Municipal Authorities.

Emmanuele PADOVANI, University of Bologna (Italy) & Jie GAO, City University of Hong Kong (China)

Similar Means, Different Ends? Non-mission-based Targets in Performance Measurement in China and Italy

Eric A. SCORSONE, Michigan State University (USA)

Regime Change, Performance Expectations and the Local Public Sector Fiscal Crisis

Christopher POLLITT & Sorin DAN, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)

The Impacts of the New Public Management in Europe: A Meta-analysis’.

Gerhard HAMMERSCHMID, Anca OPRISOR & Kai WEGRICH, Hertie School of Governance (Germany)

Evaluating public management reform – patterns and politics – patterns and politics in German public sector reform

Rhys ANDREWS & James DOWNE, Cardiff University (UK)

Contracting for Social Cohesion: Do Local Area Agreements Make a Difference?

Lucica MATEI, SNSPA (Romania); Marco MENEGUZZO, University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy);  Eleni KITRINOU,  University of the Aegean (Greece) & Cristina MITITELU, University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy)

Administrative Performance and Quality Improvement in time of Economic Crisis: Convergences & divergences in Italian, Romanian and Greek Public Sector

Steven VAN DE WALLE & Sebastian JILKE, Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands)

Europeans and savings in public services: An analysis of drivers of public preferences in the 27 EU countries

Jarmo VAKKURI, Riikka KIVIMÄKI, Anna KORK & Pietu MÄNTTÄRI University of Tampere (Finland)

Politics of Doing More with Less: Enacting Productivity Programs in the Finnish Public Sector

Külli NÕMM & Tiina RANDMA-LIIV, Tallinn University (Estonia)

International organizations as performance management promoters: the case of OECD recommendations for Estonia

Bente BJØRNHOLT & Flemming LARSEN, Aalborg University (Denmark)

Performance Measurements: linking politics, organization and policy

Asako MARUYAMA, The University of Tokyo (Japan – currently USA)

The Politics of Adult Literacy Assessment at the Global, National and Sub-national Levels: A Case Study of UNESCO-Supported Literacy and Adult Education Programs in India

Henk J. ter BOGT, University of Groningen (The Netherlands) & Robert W. SCAPENS, University of Manchester (UK)

Performance management in universities in a period of transition

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