BEYOND PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT? ASSESSING VALUE IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT

SANDERSON, IAN

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1. Managerialism, accountability and performance. a) The rise of managerialist accountability. b) Accountability and Performance. 2. A critique of performance measurement. a) Dealing with complexity. b) The "Myth of measurement". c) The "Myth of controllability". d) The potential for distortion of focus and action. e) The politics of instrumental rationality. 3. Towards a "critical-pluralist" evaluation model. a) Evaluation as "practical discourse". b) Pluralism in Evaluation. c) A framework for Assessing "Value" in Local Government. 4. Conclusion.