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- By Mona Aboulghar, Mostafa Abuzeid, Valentine Akande, Carolyn J. Alexander, Gautam N. Allahbadia, Vicki Arguello, Nabil Aziz, Osama M. Azmy, Shawky Z. A. Badawy, Susan L. Baker, Tony Bazi, Nicole Brooks, Robin Brown, William W. Brown, Maria Cerrillo, Rebecca Chilvers, Angela Clough, Willie Cotten, Alan H. DeCherney, Aygul Demirol, Richard Palmer Dickey, Essam S. Dimitry, Maria Dimitry, Tiffany Driver, Alaa El-Ebrashy, Kareem El-Nahhas, Amr Etman, Aimee Eyvazzadeh, Juan A. Garcia-Velasco, Tarek A. Gelbaya, Seth Granberg, Timur Gurgan, Gurkan Levent, Suleyman Guven, Lars Hamberger, Andrew C. Harbin, Wayne J. G. Hellstrom, Micah J. Hill, James Hole, Yakoub Khalaf, John C. LaFleur, Deborah Levine, Iwan Lewis-Jones, Edward A. Lyons, Diana M. Marcus, Samuel F. Marcus, Mohamed F. M. Mitwally, Hany F. Moustafa, Manubai Nagamani, Luciano G. Nardo, Mary G. Nawar, Moshood Olatinwo, Lia Ornat, Sheri Owens, Kathy B. Porter, Jose M. Puente, Puscheck Elizabeth, Rizk Botros, Christine B. Rizk, Christopher B. Rizk, Hassan N. Sallam, Dimitrios Siassakos, Youssef Simaika, Stuart J. Singer, Brad Steffler, Annika Strandell, Sherri K. Taylor, Antoine Watrelot, Matts Wikland, Tony G. Zreik
- Edited by Botros R. M. B. Rizk, University of South Alabama
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- Ultrasonography in Reproductive Medicine and Infertility
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- 07 September 2011
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- 25 March 2010, pp ix-xii
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14 - Public management and government performance: An international review
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- By Melissa Forbes, Joint doctoral student in public policy and sociology Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Carolyn J. Hill, Assistant Professor of Public Policy Georgetown University in Washington, DC, Laurence E. Lynn Jr., George H. W. Bush Chair and Professor of Public Affairs Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University
- Edited by George A. Boyne, Cardiff University, Kenneth J. Meier, Texas A & M University, Laurence J. O'Toole, Jr., University of Georgia, Richard M. Walker, The University of Hong Kong
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- Public Service Performance
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- 22 September 2009
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- 23 November 2006, pp 254-274
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Summary
Introduction
Performance is seemingly an obsession with governments around the world. As Frederickson and Smith (2003: 208) point out, ‘[a]ccountability for conducting the public's business is increasingly about performance rather than discharging a specific policy goal within the confines of the law.’
Evidence for ‘this general advocacy of a performance orientation’ (Pollitt and Bouckaert 2004: 126) is found, for example, in the European Commission's commitment to ‘more efficient, performance-orientated working methods’ (EC 2000: 8), in the British government's widespread use of performance targets (James 2001) and in US President George W. Bush's ‘management agenda’ in particular, in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART), instituted in 2002. This tool represents the most recent effort by the US federal government to increase the emphasis on performance in government programmes and agencies, although the 1993 Government Performance and Results Act remains in effect. It was implemented by the Bush Administration as an explicit accountability strategy:
The PART was developed to assess and improve program performance so that the Federal government can achieve better results. A PART review helps identify a program's strengths and weaknesses to inform funding and management decisions aimed at making the program more effective. The PART therefore looks at all factors that affect and reflect program performance including program purpose and design; performance measurement, evaluations, and strategic planning; program management; and program results. Because the PART includes a consistent series of analytical questions, it allows programs to show improvements over time, and allows comparisons between similar programs.
(US OMB, 2005)