1st Edition

The Government Performance and Results Act at Age 30

Edited By Donald F. Kettl Copyright 2026
108 Pages
by Routledge

108 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers a critical examination of the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1974, which was hailed as a groundbreaking reform to bring strategic planning and performance measurement to all parts of the federal government. Government agencies have to publicly explain what they are planning to do and then assess how well they are doing it. It became the part of the Clinton... Read more

Introduction: The Government Performance and Results Act at 30: Looking Forward from the Foundation of the Past

Donald F. Kettl

 

1. Are We There Yet? The Evolution of the US Federal Performance Management Framework: 1993–2022

John M. Kamensky

 

2. Federal Performance Management: Purpose, Tools, Progress, Lessons Learned, and Opportunities for Improvement

Shelley Metzenbaum

 

3. Policy That Doesn’t Burn Out, but Merely Fades Away: Ageing and Drift of Performance Specification in New Zealand

Rodney James Scott and Flavia Donadelli

 

4. Decisional Convergence in Reforms? — Evidence from a Comprehensive Study of Performance Budgeting Foundations in the US and China

Elaine Yi Lu, Lina Du and Wensheng He

 

5. Back to Basics: A Comparative Analysis of Government Performance in Governing

Jon Pierre, B. G. Peters and Björn Rönnerstrand

 

6. Politics and Planning: How Do China and the United States Differ in Their Strategic Planning Approaches for Government Performance Management?

Jie Gao

 

7. GPRA’s Incomplete Institutionalization: A Story of Roots and Branches

Edgar M. Hollandsworth and Matthew M. Dull

 

8. Strategic Planning and Goal Setting in a Politicized Environment: The Case of HUD, USICH, and Homelessness

J. Woody Stanley

Biography

Donald F. Kettl is Professor Emeritus and Former Dean of the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, USA.