03595nam 2200685 a 450 991097123570332120200520144314.09781589013667158901366297814356272081435627202(CKB)1000000000482456(EBL)547766(OCoLC)648711562(SSID)ssj0000200014(PQKBManifestationID)11172375(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000200014(PQKBWorkID)10219686(PQKB)11413365(MiAaPQ)EBC547766(OCoLC)298788638(MdBmJHUP)muse15241(Au-PeEL)EBL547766(CaPaEBR)ebr10236753(Perlego)949416(EXLCZ)99100000000048245620060131d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMeasuring the performance of the hollow state /David G. Frederickson and H. George Frederickson1st ed.Washington, D.C. Georgetown University Pressc20061 online resource (233 p.)Public management and change seriesDescription based upon print version of record.9781589011199 1589011198 Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-206) and index.Introduction: federal performance measurement -- Setting the stage: third parties, fiscal federalism, and accountability -- Performance measurement as political and administrative reform -- Performance as grants to third party service providers: the Health Resources and Services Administration -- Performance as the provision of health financial security: the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services -- Performance as grants to third-party research providers: the National Institutes of Health -- Measuring the health performance of sovereign tribes as third parties: the Indian Health Services -- Performance as regulation: the Food and Drug Administration -- Measuring performance and results in theory and practice -- After Government Performance and Results Act : performance measurement, performance budgeting and performance management.Measuring the Performance of the Hollow State is the first in-depth look at the influence of performance measurement on the effectiveness of the federal government. To do this, the authors examine the influence of the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (with consideration of the later Program Assessment Rating Tool of 2002) on federal performance measurement, agency performance, and program outcomes. They focus a systematic examination on five agencies in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Servicesùthe Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ServicePublic management and change.Contracting outUnited StatesEvaluationCase studiesSubcontractingUnited StatesCase studiesGovernment productivityUnited StatesEvaluationContracting outEvaluationSubcontractingGovernment productivityEvaluation.352.5/382439Frederickson David G1805380Frederickson H. George876563MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910971235703321Measuring the performance of the hollow state4353935UNINA04096nam 22005891 450 991095613030332120170912101431.01-350-01895-31-350-01894-51-350-01893-710.5040/9781350018952(CKB)3710000000828835(EBL)4635659(OCoLC)956998759(Au-PeEL)EBL4635659(CaPaEBR)ebr11246928(CaONFJC)MIL945686(OCoLC)1162865179(UtOrBLW)bpp09260902(UtOrBLW)BP9781350018952BC(Perlego)804810(MiAaPQ)EBC4635659(EXLCZ)99371000000082883520170912d2001 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierHistory of technologyVolume twenty-two, 2000 /edited by Graham Hollister-Short[London] :Bloomsbury Academic,2001.1 online resource (290 p.)History of technologyDescription based upon print version of record.0-8264-5339-2 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.Contents -- Editorial -- The Contributors -- Notes for Contributors -- A Failure to Communicate: The Demise of ELDO / Stephen B. Johnson, University of North Dakota -- Building a Hybrid Landscape to Purify the Ruhr Region, 1890-1935 / Edmund N. Todd, University of New Haven -- The Craft of the Bell Founder: The Chyaryshnikovs, a Russian Bell-Founding Family / Tatyana Shashkina, Odessa, Ukraine -- John Farey and his Treatise on the Steam Engine of 1827 / A.P. Woolrich, Bridgewater, Somerset -- Summer Breeze and Flushing Toilet: Deception and Reality about our Technical Past / Michael Fores, London -- The Establishment of the Society of Chemical Engineers in pre-War Japan / Yuji Jido, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan -- Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege (1777-1855), A German Engineer of Mining and Metallurgy in Portugal and Brazil / Friedrich Toussaint, Velbert-Neviges, Germany.SYMPOSIUM: THE CURRENT STATE OF THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY IN BRITAIN. Introduction / Graham Hollister-Short -- Reflections on the History of Technology in Britain / David Edgerton, Imperial College, London -- The Flourishing History of Technology in the United Kingdom: A Critique of Antiquarian Complaints of 'Neglect' / Graeme Gooday, University of Leeds -- Where is the History of Technology? / Rupert Hall, formerly Imperial College, London -- Reflections on the Decline of the History of Technology in Britain / R. Angus Buchanan, University of Bath -- Some Thoughts on the History of Technology and its Current Condition in Britain / H.S. Torrens, Keele University --Pursuing Big Books: Technological Change in Global History / Ian Inkster, Nottingham Trent University -- History of Technology in German. A Success Story? / Hans-Joachim Braun, Universitat der Bundeswehr Hamburg -- Contents of Former Volumes."The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them, form the concern of this annual collection of essays. History of Technology, Volume 22 deals with the history of technical discovery and change and explores the relation of technology to other aspects of life - social, cultural and economic - and shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred. Published under the auspices of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London."--Bloomsbury Publishing.History of TechnologyHistory of technology.TechnologyHistoryGeneral & world historyTechnologyHistory.609Hollister-Short GrahamUtOrBLWUtOrBLWBOOK9910956130303321History of technology56332UNINA