Performance Comparisons Between Single vs. Collaborative Government Services

Urban Affairs Review (gated article)

This study examines whether general-purpose governments vs. their collaborative partnerships with subgovernment units deliver crime control more effectively. The authors found find that municipalities with Crime Control and Prevention Districts (CCPDs) experience greater reductions in violent crime than comparable municipalities without CCPDs, although the effects diminish over time.

A Performance Management Reckoning: Why Traditional Metrics Are Failing

PATimes (Bill Brantley)

Government performance management often tracks what is easiest to measure instead of what matters most. Research in Public Performance & Management Review shows that this output-focused approach can create incentives to chase targets rather than fulfill an agency’s mission, leading to so-called performance paradoxes, where meeting metrics does not improve public value.

Making Measurement About Leaders’ Priorities, Not About Measures

Stacey Barr’s Blog

Possibly the greatest obstacle to organisations having meaningful performance measurement is the leadership team’s attitudes toward it. . . We need to stop making it about performance measurement.

Resource of the Week:  Journal of Policy Implementation and Evaluation

The Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management

While APPAM’s flagship Journal of Policy Analysis & Management (JPAM) remains the premier outlet for comprehensive and fully developed scholarly contributions, there is clear value in this new, complementary journal that features shorter, peer-reviewed articles with a targeted scope and a direct emphasis on policy design, implementation, and evaluation.