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Federalist No. 71: Can the Federal Government Be Held Accountable for Performance?
Author(s) -
Radin Beryl A.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
public administration review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.721
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1540-6210
pISSN - 0033-3352
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2011.02472.x
Subject(s) - federalist , government (linguistics) , george (robot) , public administration , political science , administration (probate law) , focus (optics) , law , computer science , politics , linguistics , philosophy , physics , optics , artificial intelligence
Federalist No. 71 and Federalist No. 76 focus on the level of authority in the executive. This essay reviews the recent history of efforts to measure government performance as a way to control executive performance and then proceeds to a discussion of the weakness inherent in past approaches. The author uses the Government Performance and Results Act and the George W. Bush administration’s Program Assessment Rating Tool as examples in making the case.