When Are Best Practices “Best?”

Barrett & Greene 

“Best practices, we’d argue, should be something like plug-and-play models that others can pick up and use with a reasonable assurance of success.” . . . . However, there “are five reasons we are concerned when a best practice is ballyhooed by a government official.”

Extending the Pandemic Analytics Center

Government Executive

Oversight officials say that the Pandemic Analytics Center of Excellence needs to survive past the looming sunset date, unlike a similar analytics center used to oversee stimulus spending that shuttered in 2015. A bipartisan team of lawmakers introduced legislation to keep the interagency fraud center open.

Measuring Administrative Burden

Don Moynihan/SubStack

“My insight from spending a lot of time studying performance management in government is that you need different tools and different measures for different purposes. One tool that has been missing is a specialized measure of user experienced burden.” He and colleagues set out to develop one.