Benchmarking in Federal Systems
Recent years have seen a rapidly growing interest in the use of benchmarking arrangements to improve policy performance in federal systems. This is a new development and one that is in its very early stages, but there is no doubting its significance. At issue here is the intersection of two things:...
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| description | Recent years have seen a rapidly growing interest in the use of benchmarking arrangements to improve policy performance in federal systems. This is a new development and one that is in its very early stages, but there is no doubting its significance. At issue here is the intersection of two things: a particular form of government and a particular form of management. Each is a complex matter in itself. How compatible is benchmarking with principles of federalism; and to what extent benchmarking can ‘add value’ to existing federal arrangements either by offering a superior mode of intergovernmental relations and/or by generating better substantive results for citizens? This paper looks at various benchmarking experiences in OECD-type federations and the European Union and draws tentative conclusions as to how complementary federalism and benchmarking might be. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-155112017-01-30T11:50:11Z Benchmarking in Federal Systems Fenna, Alan intergovernmental federal performance OECD policy Europe government Benchmarking management Recent years have seen a rapidly growing interest in the use of benchmarking arrangements to improve policy performance in federal systems. This is a new development and one that is in its very early stages, but there is no doubting its significance. At issue here is the intersection of two things: a particular form of government and a particular form of management. Each is a complex matter in itself. How compatible is benchmarking with principles of federalism; and to what extent benchmarking can ‘add value’ to existing federal arrangements either by offering a superior mode of intergovernmental relations and/or by generating better substantive results for citizens? This paper looks at various benchmarking experiences in OECD-type federations and the European Union and draws tentative conclusions as to how complementary federalism and benchmarking might be. 2010 Working Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15511 Forum of Federations fulltext |
| spellingShingle | intergovernmental federal performance OECD policy Europe government Benchmarking management Fenna, Alan Benchmarking in Federal Systems |
| title | Benchmarking in Federal Systems |
| title_full | Benchmarking in Federal Systems |
| title_fullStr | Benchmarking in Federal Systems |
| title_full_unstemmed | Benchmarking in Federal Systems |
| title_short | Benchmarking in Federal Systems |
| title_sort | benchmarking in federal systems |
| topic | intergovernmental federal performance OECD policy Europe government Benchmarking management |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15511 |