[PDF] Measuring Government Activity eBook

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 17,49 MB
Release : 2009-04-14
Category :
ISBN : 9264060782

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This book summarises the available OECD and other international data on public sector inputs and processes. It also examines the existing internationally comparable data on outputs and outcomes, and recommends new approaches to measurement.

Author : Great Britain: National Audit Office
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 15,22 MB
Release : 2010-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780102965360

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Good performance measurement frameworks show taxpayers what they are getting for their money and enable the Government to assess whether it is achieving its key objectives cost-effectively. In its final review of the quality of the data systems used by government departments to measure progress against Public Service Agreements (PSAs), the NAO concludes that the PSA framework provided a clear focus on the objectives that mattered for the then Government, and had gradually improved. The quality of data systems and of disclosures about measurement policies has risen: 58 per cent of PSA data systems, under 2007's Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR07), were fit for purpose, up from 30 per cent under the 2002 Spending Review. The NAO notes, however, that a third of CSR07 systems needed strengthening to improve controls or transparency and 10 per cent of systems were not fit for purpose. PSAs became progressively more focused on key priorities, and more clearly stated however they generally did not make clear the extent to which outcomes were the result of government activity. And financial information has been poorly linked with PSA indicators. The apportionment of annual departmental expenditure was not broken down by the indicators used to report progress and did not facilitate more in-depth analysis of the cost of progress. This hinders strategic decision-making because it is not clear what allocation of available resources could achieve the best overall results. The ability to link financial and performance information is particularly significant at a time when public sector budgets face severe cuts.

Author : Louis M. Imbeau
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 30,19 MB
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 134924533X

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The comparative analysis of government activity raises many methodological, theoretical and substantive problems. In this volume authors drawn from varied subfields of political science address some of these problems, including: the usefulness of expenditure data, case interdependence, the issue of non-decision, the measurement of the distribution of power through laws, methodological individualism, cultural explanations, politico-economic interactions, the usefulness of textual analysis and issues of accumulation and aggregation.

Author : Neil Carter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 35,99 MB
Release : 2002-01-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1134813651

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Throughout the 1980s the British Civil Service devoted much time and energy developing indicators to measure the performance of government. Never before had so much stress been placed on accountability and performance; a trend which will be reinforced as government continues to devolve activities to agencies and looks for methods to assess their performance. How Organisations Measure Success analyses existing methods from their origins in the 1960s to their revival in the 1980s as part of the Financial Management Initiative and its apotheosis in the 1990s Next Steps Initiative. How Organisations Measure Success reports on two years of field research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and will be of great interest to students of social policy and public administration as well as professionals working in government and public sector management.

Author :
Publisher :
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 29,81 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Finance, Public
ISBN :

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This Working Paper compiles a set of recent comparable OECD data on revenues, inputs, and public sector processes and proposes a way forward in data collection. It is the first of three annual Working Papers as the Public Governance and Territorial Development (GOV) Directorate of the OECD builds up to the first publication of a major biennial publication, "Government at a Glance", in late 2009. It is accompanied by a volume entitled "Measuring Government Activities" (OECD, forthcoming) that sets out the proposed approach and that poses technical alternatives for expert review and comment. The first part of this volume provides a comprehensive exposition of the proposed data classification and analysis.

Author : United States. Bureau of the Budget
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 14,86 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Executive departments
ISBN :

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Survey and 5 case studies on the measurement of productivity in the federal public services of USA. Research methods.