Making Government Accountable: Lessons from a Federal Job Training Program.

This article describes the evolution of a performance measurement system in a government job training program. In this program, a federal agency establishes performance measures and standards for substate agencies. The performance measurement system’s evolution is at least partly explained as a proc...

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Publicado en:Public Administration Review Vol. 67; no. 5; pp. 904 - 917
Autores principales: Courty, Pascal, Marschke, Gerald
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Sep2007
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        Occupational training
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        Civil service positions
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