1st Edition
Performing the State Critical encounters with performance measurement in social and public policy
Introduction – Performing the state: the socio-political dimensions of performance measurement in policy and public services 1. Performance measurement as a policy instrument 2. Population health performance as primary healthcare governance in Australia: professionals and the politics of performance 3. Hitting the target without missing the point: New Zealand’s immunisation health target for two year olds 4. The challenge of quantifying national well-being: lessons from the Measures of Australia’s Progress initiative 5. NAPLAN data: a new policy assemblage and mode of governance in Australian schooling 6. Repositioning prevention in child protection using performance indicators 7. Techniques and paradoxes in performing performance measurements: concluding reflections
Biography
Paul Henman is Associate Professor of Digital Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Queensland, Australia. His research examines the nexus between government policy, public administration and information technologies. He is the author of Governing Electronically: e-government and the reconfiguration of policy, public administration and power (2010).
Alison Gable is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Schools of Education and Social Science, University of Queensland, Australia. Her research and practice sits at the intersection of data, professions, education policy, and reform.
