EGPA Study Group on Productivity and Quality in the Public Sector: performance measurement and management

EGPA - European Group of Public Administration
Study Group 2: Performance in the Public Sector

Bucharest conference (2011)

	The Study Group will meet in 2011 during the EGPA annual conference September 7-10, Bucharest, Romania. The theme for this year is: The politics of performance measurement and management For general information on the EGPA annual conference, please consult the 2011 conference page.

Accepted papers and abstracts

Chris Game	Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	12.6 million annual data returns per council: A measure of local government performance measurement in the UK	abstract
Lucica Matei, Marco Meneguzzo, Eleni Kitrinou & Cristina Mititelu	Faculty of Public Administration - NSPSPA, Faculty of Economic - University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’ & Department of Sociology - University of the Aegean.	Romania, Italy & Greece	Administrative Performance and Quality Improvement in time of Economic Crisis: Convergences & divergences in Italian, Romanian and Greek Public Sector	abstract
Rhys Andrews & James Downe	Cardiff Business School	United Kingdom	Contracting for Social Cohesion: Do Local Area Agreements Make a Difference?	abstract
Mauricio I. Dussauge Laguna	London School of Economics and Political Science	United Kingdom	Democratisation and Performance-Based Policies: Chile and Mexico in comparative perspective	abstract
Åge Johnsen	Faculty of Social Sciences, Oslo University College	Norway	Does politics matter? Determinants of performance management in Norwegian municipalities	abstract
Steven Van de Walle & Sebastian Jilke	Department of Public Administration, Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands	Europeans and savings in public services: An analysis of drivers of public preferences in the 27 EU countries	abstract
Gerhard Hammerschmid, Anca Opriso & Kai Wegrich	Hertie School of Governance	Germany	Evaluating public management reform - patterns and politics - patterns and politics in German public sector reform	abstract
Alexander Kroll	Public & Nonprofit Management, University of Potsdam	Germany	Explaining the Use of Performance Information by Public Managers: A Planned-Behavior Approach	abstract
Külli Nõmm & Tiina Randma-Liiv	Tallinn University of Technology	Estonia	International organizations as performance management promoters: the case of OECD recommendations for Estonia	abstract
Iris Saliterer & Sanja Korac	Department of Public, Nonprofit & Health Management, Alpen-Adria-University	Austria	Performance information use - Who, why and what for?: Insights from a nation-wide multiple informant survey at the local government level	abstract
Hans de Groot & Bart L. van Hulst	Innovation and Governance Studies, University of Twente & Innovation and Public Sector Efficiency Studies, Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	Performance Management and Cost-effectiveness of Public Services: Empirical evidence from Dutch municipalities	abstract
Priscilla Reinisch Perdicaris	Diretora Administrativa, Instituto Santista de Oncologia	Brazil	Performance Management as Public Policy: An analysis of the Agenda Setting and Elaboration of Alternatives in Brazilian Municipal Authorities.	abstract
Rick Anderson & Herbert Maks	Business School INHolland	Netherlands	Performance management in the Public Sector: A study on output management	abstract
Henk J. ter Bogt & Robert w. Scapens	University of Groningen & University of Manchester	Netherlands & United Kingdom	Performance management in universities in a periodd of transition	abstract
Bente Bjørnholt & Flemming Larsen	Department of Political Science, Aalborg University	Denmark	Performance Measurements: linking politics, organization and policy	abstract
Peter Oomsels & Jesse Stroobants	Public Management Institute, K.U.Leuven	Belgium	Performance regimes in Flanders: The performance regime of the BBB reform	abstract
Jarmo Vakkuri, Riikka Kivimäki, Anna Kork & Pietu Mänttäri	School of Management, University of Tampere	Finland	Politics of Doing More with Less: Enacting Productivity Programs in the Finnish Public Sector	abstract
Eric A. Scorsone	Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics and MSU Extension, Michigan State University	USA	Regime Change, Performance Expectations and the Local Public Sector Fiscal Crisis	abstract
Gael Sandrin & Franck Guarnieri	Administration & Civil Service Dept., Sopra Consulting & Center for Research on Risk and Crisis, Mines ParisTech	France	Setting up internal control in French state administration: deficiencies and prospects for a performance instrument	abstract
Gerhard Hammerschmid & René Geissler	Hertie School of Governance	Germany	The Perception of Performance Management in German Public Administration - Results from an Executive Survey in Federal and State Government	abstract
Christopher Pollitt & Sorin Dan	Public Management Institute, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium	The Performance of Performance Management: The Impacts of NPM Reforms Across Europe	abstract
Asako Maruyama	The University of Tokyo	Japan (currently based in the US)	The Politics of Adult Literacy Assessment at the Global, National and Sub-national Levels: A Case Study of UNESCO-Supported Literacy and Adult Education Programs in India	abstract
Ringa Raudla	Department of Public Administration, Tallinn University of Technology	Estonia	The Use of Performance Information in Budgetary Decision-Making by Legislators: Is Estonia Any Different?	abstract
Emanuele Padovani & Jie Gao	University of Bologna and City University of Hong Kong	Italy, China	Similar Means, Different Ends? Non-mission-based Targets in Performance Measurement in China and Italy	abstract