GPRA’s Incomplete Institutionalization: A Story of Roots and Branches

International Journal of Public Administration (gated article)

Edgar Hollandsworth and Matthew Dull propose explanations for GPRA’s incomplete institutionalization, and how it has influenced and continues to affect the use of performance management in the US Government. It evaluates the evolving institutionalization of GPRA, PART, and GPRAMA resulting from tensions in three sets of competing performance management reform values: 1) performance-performative communications, 2) discretion-accountability, and 3) politics-administration.

Balanced Scorecard: A Literature Review in the Public Administration Domain

International Journal of Public Administration (gated article)

Richardo Gomes and Clovis de Azevedo review the use of Balanced Scorecards use by public administration scholars by analyzing articles from the Web of Science database with bibliometric tools and Artificial Intelligence for lexical and semantic analysis. The analysis concluded that BSC is mainly used in local government for performance management and measurement.

Resource of the Week: How to Measure Government Outcomes

Adura Strategy (Stacey Barr, Australia)

The increasing demand for greater transparency of, and accountability for, the impact of how public funds are spent requires that governments measure their outcomes, not just their activities. This guide addresses five challenges in doing so.