Institutions, incentives and public sector performance |
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Presentations and papers from a symposium held on 18 January 2008 Improving quality and productivity has been the aim of a wide range of innovations designed to change the incentives for the delivery of public services. OPI’s January conference brought together researchers and public sector practitioners to discuss the latest research on the incentives and institutions that influence public sector performance. Three themes emerged from the discussion of international significance and requiring further research: the rate of substitution between different classes of incentives (in particular, the extent to which `high-powered’ incentives undermine intrinsic incentives (professionalism and public ethic); the extent to which central agencies can manage local government services `by numbers’; and the role of leadership in public sector performance. |
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Do we need a theory of government to measure government performance? Matt Andrews (Harvard Kennedy School of Government) |
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Performance and deprivation in English local government Dirk Haubrich, Iain McLean, Roxana Gutierrez-Romero (Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford) |
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Leadership and performance in local government Barry Quirk (London Borough of Lewisham) |
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The determinants of educational outcomes in India Manisha Singh (India Development Foundation) |
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Principal-agent relationships in education Rosalind Levacic (Institute of Education, University of London) |
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Pay ’em or flay ’em: improving productivity in the medical labour market Karen Bloor (Department of Health Sciences, York) |
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Public sector health care reforms that ‘work’?: The case of the Veterans Health Administration Adam Oliver (LSE Health & Social Care) |
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Papers Additional papers are being prepared for distribution and will be published on this site shortly. |
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Do we need a theory of government to measure government performance? Matt Andrews (Harvard Kennedy School of Government) |
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Comprehensive Performance Assessment: efficiency versus fairness? Prof Peter John (Institute for Political and Economic Governance, Manchester) |
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Local government improvement and its future prospects Clive Grace & Prof Steve Martin (University of Cardiff Business School) |
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'Organisations are cakes not cars': getting the public sector incentive mix right Fiona Murray |
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Adjusting to institutions: the politics of indigenous institutions Cristopher Ballinas-Valdes (Hertford College, Oxford) |
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