Drawing on recent advances in the social sciences, this volume shows how rigorous, theory-based empirical research can help improve the management of public policies and programs—and how better governance can lead to better performance.

These original essays demonstrate how better data and improved statistical techniques have allowed researchers to construct more complex models of governance processes and thereby assess the effects of many variables on policy and program outcomes. They present useful research results that illuminate such issues as automatic grade advancement in public schools, management of federally-funded job-training programs, reducing welfare caseloads, and management of welfare-to-work programs.

Illustrating a range of theoretical and methodological possibilities, this book shows how more sophisticated research in public management can help improve government performance.

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Information

Publisher

Georgetown University Press

Year

2000

ISBN

9781589013339

Topic

Politics & International Relations

Subtopic

Public Affairs & Administration

Index

Politics & International Relations

Cover
Contents
Biographies
Preface
CHAPTER 1 Studying Governance and Public Management: Why? How?
CHAPTER 2 Evaluating Chicago's Efforts to End Social Promotion
CHAPTER 3 Governance and Performance: The Influence of Program Structure and Management on Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) Program Outcomes
CHAPTER 4 Driving Caseloads Down: Welfare Policy Choices and Administrative Action in the States
CHAPTER 5 Examining the Effect of Welfare-to-Work Structures and Services on a Desired Policy Outcome
CHAPTER 6 Management, Organizational Characteristics, and Performance: The Case of Welfare-to-work Programs
CHAPTER 7 Congressional Committees and Policy Change: Explaining Legislative Outcomes in Banking, Trucking, Airline, and Telecommunications Deregulation
CHAPTER 8 How Networks Are Governed
CHAPTER 9 Networks, Hierarchies, and Public Management: Modeling the Nonlinearities
CHAPTER 10 Dissecting the Black Box Revisited: Characterizing Government Management Capacity
CHAPTER 11 Prospects for the Study of the Governance of Public Organizations and Policies
Subject Index
Author Index