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While acknowledging the political context of all public administration systems, they argue that effective management of these systems nevertheless provides the key to good government performance.

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This slim volume, a seminal study, provides a positive picture of public managers eager to learn and to create management capacity, which is posited as the key to governmental performance... A must read for students of public management. Choice 2004 The authors of this volume argue that one quality above all is crucial to the overall performance of government: effective management. International Review of Administrative Sciences An ambitious and well-publicized attempt to define criteria for measuring government performance... Well argued and rich in material. -- Sandford Borins Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 2004

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Contents: 1. Management, Capacity, and Performance 2. Dissecting Management 3. Assessing Management 4. Research Methodology 5. State and Local Findings 6. Federal Results 7. The Big Lessons 8. Next Steps

Government Performance

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    A Paperback / softback by Patricia W. Ingraham, Philip G. Joyce, Amy Kneedler Donahue

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 14 November 2003
      ISBN-13 9780801872280
      978-0801872280
      ISBN-10 0801872286
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      Central / national / federal government Regional, state and other local government

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      While acknowledging the political context of all public administration systems, they argue that effective management of these systems nevertheless provides the key to good government performance.

      Trade Review
      This slim volume, a seminal study, provides a positive picture of public managers eager to learn and to create management capacity, which is posited as the key to governmental performance... A must read for students of public management. Choice 2004 The authors of this volume argue that one quality above all is crucial to the overall performance of government: effective management. International Review of Administrative Sciences An ambitious and well-publicized attempt to define criteria for measuring government performance... Well argued and rich in material. -- Sandford Borins Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 2004

      Table of Contents
      Contents: 1. Management, Capacity, and Performance 2. Dissecting Management 3. Assessing Management 4. Research Methodology 5. State and Local Findings 6. Federal Results 7. The Big Lessons 8. Next Steps

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