Introduction: federal performance measurement -- Setting the stage: third parties, fiscal federalism, and accountability -- Performance measurement as political and administrative reform -- Performance as grants to third party service providers: the Health Resources and Services Administration -- Performance as the provision of health financial security: the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services -- Performance as grants to third-party research providers: the National Institutes of Health -- Measuring the health performance of sovereign tribes as third parties: the Indian Health Services -- Performance as regulation: the Food and Drug Administration -- Measuring performance and results in theory and practice -- After Government Performance and Results Act : performance measurement, performance budgeting and performance management
Summary
Measuring the Performance of the Hollow State is the first in-depth look at the influence of performance measurement on the effectiveness of the federal government. To do this, the authors examine the influence of the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (with consideration of the later Program Assessment Rating Tool of 2002) on federal performance measurement, agency performance, and program outcomes. They focus a systematic examination on five agencies in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Servicesthe Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-206) and index
