1st Edition
Managing Performance International Comparisons
Acknowledgements Introduction Part I Concepts, Approaches and Explanations1. What is managing performance? 2. Performance and management: approaches to analysis 3. Managing performance: contexts and explanations Part II Performance Types 4. Performance administration 5. Managements of performances 6. Performance management Part III Comparative Performance and Evaluation 7. Managing performance: comparing country models and practice 8. Paradoxes and disconnects in managing performance 9. Towards performance governance: a new agenda? 10. Conclusion and next steps Appendices i. Methodological introduction to the country models ii Ideal types of managing performance: synthetic overview iii OECD checklists iv List of glossaries v Country models vi. Notes vii. Bibliography viii. Index
Biography
Geert Bouckaert is a Professor of Public Management and Director of the Public Management Institute at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He is also President of the European Group of Public Administration.
John Halligan is Research Professor of Government and Public Administration at the School of Business and Government at the University of Canberra, Australia, and Director of the National Institute of Governance at the same institution.
