Measuring how administration shapes citizenship: A policy feedback perspective on performance management

• 成果类型: Article; Proceedings Paper
• 署名作者: Wichowsky, Amber; Moynihan, Donald P.
• 署名单位: University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2008.00931.x
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 908-920
• 关键词: Public management; welfare; PARTICIPATION; devolution; networks; POLITICS; IMPACT

摘要

Governments increasingly require administrators to develop outcome measurements that reflect a program's impact on society. But standard approaches to performance measurement have neglected the impact on citizenship outcomes-the individual civic capacities and dispositions and social bonds of civic reciprocity and trust. The concept is adapted from the growing policy feedback literature in political science, which offers strong empirical evidence that certain policies have measurable effects on citizenship outcomes such as political participation, social capital, a sense of civic belonging, and self-worth as a citizen. Using the Program Assessment Rating Tool as an example, the authors demonstrate the failure of performance assessments to consider the civic implications of public policies. They argue that performance management systems should focus on citizenship outcomes and offer a series of suggestions on how to measure such outcomes.