Open AccessMeasuring the Effectiveness of New Zealand’s Local Government
Author(s) -
Peter Hodder
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
policy quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2324-1101
pISSN - 2324-1098
DOI - 10.26686/pq.v15i2.5691
Subject(s) - reputation , local government , stakeholder , stakeholder engagement , government (linguistics) , scheme (mathematics) , business , value (mathematics) , public relations , reputation management , measure (data warehouse) , public administration , public economics , political science , economics , computer science , mathematical analysis , linguistics , philosophy , mathematics , machine learning , database , law
Local Government New Zealand’s recently introduced CouncilMARKâ„¢ scheme assesses local councils’ effective management of finance and resources, their leadership and their responsiveness to their communities, and enables them to be compared and the prospect for collaboration towards improved performance explored. Other measures of reputation and ratepayer participation suggest that CouncilMARK may be over-emphasising managerial capability relative to stakeholder engagement, which may have implications for the scheme’s value if community well-being is introduced as a prominent measure of performance.