Performance rating and yardstick competition in social service provision

• 成果类型: Article; Proceedings Paper
• 署名作者: Revelli, F
• 署名单位: University of Turin
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2005.07.006
• 发表日期: 2006
• 页码: 459-475
• 关键词: social services; welfare competition; information spill-overs; spatial auto-correlation

摘要

This paper investigates whether national evaluation of decentralised government performance tends, by lessening local information spill-overs, to reduce the scope for local performance comparisons and consequently to lower the extent of spatial auto-correlation among local government expenditures. It analyses local government expenditures on personal social services in the UK before and after the introduction of a national performance assessment system (SSPR, Social Services Performance Rating) that would attribute a rating to each local authority. The empirical evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that the SSPR has reduced local yardstick competition. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.