Research Catalog

Title

Measuring the performance of the hollow state / David G. Frederickson and H. George Frederickson.

Author

Frederickson, David G.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

Frederickson, H. George

Description

xiii, 218 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Public management and change series

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books.
• Public management and change

Subject

• United States. Department of Health and Human Services > Evaluation
• Federal Government
• Evaluation Studies as Topic
• Efficiency
• Contract Services
• Contracting out > United States > Evaluation > Case studies
• Subcontracting > United States > Case studies
• Government productivity > United States > Evaluation
• United States
• United States

Genre/Form

Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-206) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: federal performance measurement -- Setting the stage: third parties, fiscal federalism, and accountability -- Performance measurement as political and administrative reform -- Performance as grants to third party service providers: the Health Resources and Services Administration -- Performance as the provision of health financial security: the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services -- Performance as grants to third-party research providers: the National Institutes of Health -- Measuring the health performance of sovereign tribes as third parties: the Indian Health Services -- Performance as regulation: the Food and Drug Administration -- Measuring performance and results in theory and practice -- After Government Performance and Results Act : performance measurement, performance budgeting and performance management.

ISBN

1589011198 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• ^^2006003224
• 9781589011199

OCLC

• 63277894
• SCSB-11642143

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library