TY - BOOK
T1 - Handbook on Measuring Governance
A2 - Triantafillou, Peter
A2 - Lewis, Jenny
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Measuring governance has become an increasingly important feature of modern societies, with organizations and institutions expected to prove their worth byquantifying their activities and results. This unique Handbook maps historical developments, theoretical conceptions and key approaches, and summarizes what is known about measuring governance from a variety of fields of practice.Peter Triantafillou and Jenny M. Lewis bring together an array of leading international academics to examine how governance is measured across different policy sectors and levels of government. Chapters explore the sociological theory of measurement, the quality of collaborative governance processes, governance in public health care and global development cooperation. The editors and contributors have combined theoretical thinking with empirical findings to support this comprehensive overview of measuring governance, providing a significant contribution to the ongoing discourse in this field.This thought-provoking Handbook will appeal to public administration and public policy professionals, as well as business and government practitioners at a national and international level. It will also prove highly beneficial to students, academics and researchers in governance, social policy, business and management and political science.
AB - Measuring governance has become an increasingly important feature of modern societies, with organizations and institutions expected to prove their worth byquantifying their activities and results. This unique Handbook maps historical developments, theoretical conceptions and key approaches, and summarizes what is known about measuring governance from a variety of fields of practice.Peter Triantafillou and Jenny M. Lewis bring together an array of leading international academics to examine how governance is measured across different policy sectors and levels of government. Chapters explore the sociological theory of measurement, the quality of collaborative governance processes, governance in public health care and global development cooperation. The editors and contributors have combined theoretical thinking with empirical findings to support this comprehensive overview of measuring governance, providing a significant contribution to the ongoing discourse in this field.This thought-provoking Handbook will appeal to public administration and public policy professionals, as well as business and government practitioners at a national and international level. It will also prove highly beneficial to students, academics and researchers in governance, social policy, business and management and political science.
KW - Governance
KW - Measurement
KW - Policy
KW - Public administration
KW - Accountability
KW - Public sector reform
KW - Governance
KW - Measurement
KW - Policy
KW - Public administration
KW - Accountability
KW - Public sector reform
UR - https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/handbook-on-measuring-governance-9781802200638.html
U2 - 10.4337/9781802200645
DO - 10.4337/9781802200645
M3 - Anthology
SN - 9781802200638
T3 - Elgar Handbooks in Public Administration and Management
BT - Handbook on Measuring Governance
PB - Edward Elgar Publishing
CY - Cheltenham
ER -