Search Results - "Nielsen, Poul A."

Performance Management, Managerial Authority, and Public Service Performance by Nielsen, Poul A.

“…A central notion of performance management reform is that outcome-based accountability should be accompanied by increased managerial authority, thereby…”
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Performance Information, Blame Avoidance, and Politicians' Attitudes to Spending and Reform: Evidence from an Experiment by Nielsen, Poul A., Baekgaard, Martin

“…Performance information has been argued to assist politicians in decision making on budgeting and reform, but research on how political decision makers respond…”
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Rational planning and politicians' preferences for spending and reform: replication and extension of a survey experiment by George, Bert, Desmidt, Sebastian, Nielsen, Poul A., Baekgaard, Martin

“…The rational planning cycle of formulating strategic goals and using performance information to assess goal implementation is assumed to assist decision-making…”
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Romanticizing bureaucratic leadership? The politics of how elected officials attribute responsibility for performance by Nielsen, Poul A., Moynihan, Donald P.

“…A core task for elected officials is to hold bureaucratic leaders responsible, but how do they determine if public managers actually influence outcomes? We…”
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How Do Politicians Attribute Bureaucratic Responsibility for Performance? Negativity Bias and Interest Group Advocacy by Nielsen, Poul A., Moynihan, Donald P.

“…Voters reward or punish politicians by deeming them responsible for positive and negative outcomes, but how, in turn, do politicians attribute responsibility…”
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