Is performance management an appropriate model for public sector organizations? This valuable new text provides a systematic framework to assess the viability and success of this management model in public administrational contexts in a variety of countries.

Geert Bouckaert is a Professor of Public Management and Director of the Public Management Institute at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He is also President of the European Group of Public Administration.

John Halligan is Research Professor of Government and Public Administration at the School of Business and Government at the University of Canberra, Australia, and Director of the National Institute of Governance at the same institution.

1. What is Performance Management? 2. Performance and Management: Approaches to Analysis 3. Performance Management: Context and Explanations 4. Performance Administration 5. Managements of Performance 6. Performance Management 7. Accountability and Performance 8. Performance Management: Critique and Evaluation 9. Managing Performance