Performance Information in the Public Sector: How it is Used (Governance and Public Management)

Combining practical experience with academic analysis this book explores the social and organizational dynamics of performance indicators. It moves beyond the technicalities of measurement and indicators and looks at how performance information is changing the public sector.

MARIA P. ARISTIGUETA Professor and Director of the School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy of the University of Delaware, USAJOSTEIN ASKIM Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science of the University of Oslo, NorwayGEERT BOUCKAERT Professor and Director of the Public Management Institute of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BelgiumDENNIS DE KOOL Research Fellow at the Center for Public Innovation, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the NetherlandsPATRIA DE LANCER JULNES Associate Professor and Director of the Doctor of Public Administration Program in the Department of Political Science at Utah State University, USAKATHRYN DENHARDT Professor at the School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy of the University of Delaware, USAJOHN HALLIGAN Research Professor at the School of Business and Government of the University of Canberra, Australia HARRY HATRY Distinguished Fellow and Director of the Public Management Program at the Urban Institute, USAALFRED TAT-KEI HO Associate Professor at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA ÅGE JOHNSEN Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Oslo University College, Norway CAROLE JOHNSON Lecturer at the Manchester Business School and Fellow with the Herbert Simon Institute, UKPER LÆGREID Professor at the Department of Administration and Organization Theory of the University of Bergen, and Senior Researcher at the Stein Rokkan Centre, University of Bergen, NorwayDONALD MOYNIHAN Associate Professor at the LaFollette School of Public Affairs of the University of Wisconsin Madison, USAZOE RADNOR Senior Lecturer at the Warwick Business School, UKALASDAIR ROBERTS Rappaport Professor of Law and Public Policy at Suffolk University Law School, USAPAUL G. RONESS Professor at the Department of Administration and Organization Theory of the University of Bergen, UKKRISTIN RUBECKSEN Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Administration and Organization Theory of the University of Bergen, NorwayCOLIN TALBOT Professor at the Manchester Business School and Director of the Herbert Simon Institute, UKSTEVEN VAN DE WALLE Associate Professor at the Department of Public Administration, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the NetherlandsWOUTER VAN DOOREN Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science of the University of Antwerp and Research Fellow at the Public Management Institute of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

MARIA P. ARISTIGUETA Professor and Director of the School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy of the University of Delaware, USAJOSTEIN ASKIM Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science of the University of Oslo, NorwayGEERT BOUCKAERT Professor and Director of the Public Management Institute of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BelgiumDENNIS DE KOOL Research Fellow at the Center for Public Innovation, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the NetherlandsPATRIA DE LANCER JULNES Associate Professor and Director of the Doctor of Public Administration Program in the Department of Political Science at Utah State University, USAKATHRYN DENHARDT Professor at the School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy of the University of Delaware, USAJOHN HALLIGAN Research Professor at the School of Business and Government of the University of Canberra, Australia HARRY HATRY Distinguished Fellow and Director of the Public Management Program at the Urban Institute, USAALFRED TAT-KEI HO Associate Professor at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA ÅGE JOHNSEN Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Oslo University College, Norway CAROLE JOHNSON Lecturer at the Manchester Business School and Fellow with the Herbert Simon Institute, UKPER LÆGREID Professor at the Department of Administration and Organization Theory of the University of Bergen, and Senior Researcher at the Stein Rokkan Centre,University of Bergen, NorwayDONALD MOYNIHAN Associate Professor at the LaFollette School of Public Affairs of the University of Wisconsin Madison, USAZOE RADNOR Senior Lecturer at the Warwick Business School, UKALASDAIR ROBERTS Rappaport Professor of Law and Public Policy at Suffolk University Law School, USAPAUL G. RONESS Professor at the Department of Administration and Organization Theory of the University of Bergen, UKKRISTIN RUBECKSEN Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Administration and Organization Theory of the University of Bergen, NorwayCOLIN TALBOT Professor at the Manchester Business School and Director of the Herbert Simon Institute, UKSTEVEN VAN DE WALLE Associate Professor at the Department of Public Administration, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the NetherlandsWOUTER VAN DOOREN Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science of the University of Antwerp and Research Fellow at the Public Management Institute of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium