Governance and Performance: New Perspectives

Drawing on recent advances in the social sciences, this volume shows how rigorous, theory-based empirical research in public management can help improve government performance. These original essays demonstrate how better data and improved statistical techniques have allowed researchers to construct more complex models of governance processes and thereby assess the effects of many variables on policy and program outcomes. They present useful research results that illuminate such issues as automatic grade advancement in public schools, management of federally-funded job-training programs, reducing welfare caseloads, and management of welfare-to-work programs.