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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Evaluation and Reform

Law school, grad school, or policy school?

A crisis of confidence

Evaluation

Remember what Wolf wrote: "First, the `products' of non-market activities are usually hard to define in principle, ill-defined in practice, and extremely difficult to measure independently of the inputs which produce them."



Inputs v. outputs v. outcomes

Efficiency v. effectiveness


Reform

  • Reinvented Government, operating more like a business, with performance measures
  • Government by Network, contracting out the work.
  • Government by Market, creating a market driver to change the behavior of a large group or people, eg. putting a bounty on cans and bottles.





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