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Assessing Governance: The Importance of Evaluating Policy Outcomes in National Mission Areas
Author(s) -
Boardman Craig
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
governance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.46
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1468-0491
pISSN - 0952-1895
DOI - 10.1111/gove.12083
Subject(s) - public administration , administration (probate law) , corporate governance , government (linguistics) , public policy , political science , quality (philosophy) , business , finance , law , linguistics , philosophy , epistemology
This commentary responds to F ukuyama's (2013) rejection of “final outputs” as measures of government quality. It argues that public administration research should address policy outcomes in “national mission areas.” But public administration scholars should not simply become policy analysts. Rather, they should become policy analysts for policy areas that can benefit from expertise in organizations and management.