Performance Gaps, Peer Effects, and Comparative Behaviour
Empirical Evidence from Swedish Local Government
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6170138 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tim Jäkel (0000-0002-2151-2801, National Research University Higher School of Economics, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 27-53 |
| Publication date | 2019-04-14 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Statistics Politics and Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2151-7509 • E-ISSN: 2194-6299 |
| Publisher | De Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/spp-2018-0004 |
| OpenAlex | W2939612291 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 54 |
Centralized inspections face scepticism among local public managers, and voluntary evaluations have become a popular complement. This study uses the Swedish local government benchmarking programme (Kommunens Kvalitet i Korthet) to investigate what correlates with partaking in a benchmarking exercise empirically. This study finds evidence for temporal and spatial clustering: participants cluster geographically at an early stage of the exercise, new entrants tended to attach to existing clusters of participants rather than forming new clusters themselves. From event history analyses this study also finds that the proportion of participants among direct neighbours increases the conditional probability of entering the exercise. This suggests that public managers and local councils mimic the behaviour from nearby councils when it comes to the use of performance evaluations
Benchmarking · Business · Cluster (spacecraft · Empirical evidence · Empirical research · Government (linguistics · Local government · Political science · Public relations · Skepticism · Statistics · Computer Science · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Policy Transfer and Learning · Psychology · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research · Marketing
Event History Analysis
Performance Management in the Public Sector
Applied Survival Analysis
Event History and Survival Analysis
Reasoning the fast and frugal way
The iron cage revisited institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields
Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning
Regression Models and Life-Tables
Strategic Responses to Institutional Processes
Veto Players
Bounded Rationality
The Blame Game
Validity, Utilization and Evidence-Based Policy
Public Management Innovation
Reputation and Public Administration
Learning From Success
Administrative Professionals and the Diffusion of Innovations
Performance management in a benchmarking regime
A Theory of Social Comparison Processes
Knowledge and Networks
Why Measure Performance? Different Purposes Require Different Measures
Knowledge Sharing in a Third‐Party‐Governed Health and Human Services Network
Factors Influencing the Use of Performance Data to Improve Municipal Services
How learning aggregates
Policy learning and science policy innovation adoption by street-level bureaucrats
Political Mobility and Dynamic Diffusion of Innovation
Performance Gaps and Managerial Decisions
Benchmarking and Interorganizational Learning in Local Government
Public Management at the Ballot Box
Bounded Rationality and Political Science
The Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models
Diffusion and the International Context of Democratization
Who ‘marries’ whom? The influence of societal connectedness, economic and political homogeneity, and population size on jurisdictional consolidations
Effective” Number of Parties
Interstate Professional Associations and the Diffusion of Policy Innovations
Modernization
The Iron Cage Revisited
Innovation in the States
A Formal Model of Learning and Policy Diffusion
State Lottery Adoptions as Policy Innovations
Medical Innovation Revisited
Threshold Models of Collective Behavior
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |