Does Frederick Taylor's ghost still haunt the halls of government? A look at the concept of governmental efficiency in our time

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Schachter, Hindy Lauer
• 署名单位: New Jersey Institute of Technology
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2007.00768.x
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 800-810
• 关键词: PERFORMANCE-MEASUREMENT; political-economy; public-transit; big questions; results act; management; systems; EMPLOYMENT; POLICY

摘要

Since the Progressive Era, efficiency has been a cherished administrative value and a key concept in the study of public administration. Despite contemporary attention to other criteria, such as responsiveness and equity, efficiency remains a guiding governmental value and a focus of scholarly writing. Although efficiency is often considered an apolitical value, this article argues that public sector efficiency receives meaning through a political framework. The analysis explores changing definitions of transit efficiency to propose a revitalized, politically attuned concept.