Tools of Control? Comparing Congressional and Presidential Performance Management Reforms
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6364404 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexander Kroll (0000-0002-2825-8607, Florida International University, corresponding author), Donald P Moynihan (0000-0003-4097-6908, Georgetown University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 599-609 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Public Administration Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-3352 • E-ISSN: 1540-6210 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/puar.13312 |
| OpenAlex | W3088471230 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 37 |
Presidents are claimed to have a stronger interest in an effective bureaucracy than Congress because they must be responsive to the public as a whole rather than narrow interests. We examine this claim in the context of multiple waves of U.S. performance management reforms: the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993, the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART ) (2002–2008), and the GPRA Modernization Act (GPRAMA) of 2010. Using four waves of federal employee surveys spanning 17 years, we measure reform success as employees’ purposeful use of performance data as a result of being exposed to routines embedded in the reforms. We find that the legislative‐led GPRAMA is associated with more purposeful data use on aggregate while the PART executive reform succumbed to a partisan pattern of implementation. Statutory reforms are less likely to be experienced as ideological tools than executive branch reforms used by the president to impose control over agencies
Bureaucracy · Context (archaeology · Control (management · Economics · Executive branch · Government (linguistics · Ideology · Legislation · Legislature · Management · Modernization theory · Performance Management · Political science · Politics · Presidential system · Public economics · Reform Act · Statutory law · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Law · Policy Transfer and Learning · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research
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Branding, Value‐Signaling , and Nudging
Public Management for Populists
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Politics, position, and power
The Politics of Presidential Appointments
Behavioral Public Performance
Bending the Rules
Drivers of Performance Information Use
Common Method Bias in Regression Models With Linear, Quadratic, and Interaction Effects
The “Proper Organs” for Presidential Representation
Organizational Complexity and Coordination Dilemmas in U.S. Executive Politics
Advancing the Empirical Study of Performance Management
The Triumph of Loyalty Over Competence
The Tides of Reform Revisited
Governing New York City
"The Science of "Muddling Through
The Obama Administration and PBB
Political Implications of Budgetary Reform
The Design and Practice of Integrating Evidence
Sharpening a Knife Cleverly
Does Performance Budgeting Work? An Examination of the Office of Management and Budget’s Part Scores
Government Reform, Political Ideology, and Administrative Burden
Performance Management Routines That Work? An Early Assessment of the GPRA Modernization Act
Expert Opinion, Agency Characteristics, and Agency Preferences
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How Do Elected Officials Evaluate Performance? Goal Preferences, Governance Preferences, and the Process of Goal Reprioritization
The Consequences of Presidential Patronage for Federal Agency Performance
Agency Political Ideology and Reform Implementation
Executive Branch Management and Presidential Unilateralism
Divided Government in the American States
Unified Government, Divided Government, and Party Responsiveness
Seeing Like a State
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |