The Brookings Center for Public Management
The Brookings Institution launched the Center for Public Management (CPM) within the Governmental Studies Program in December 1993 to focus much-needed public attention on the administrative dimension of American government. Under the leadership of John J. DiIulio, Jr. and Donald F. Kettl, CPM has gotten off to a fast start, with a rich offering of scholarly books and timely reports as well as successful initiatives in public outreach and management training.
The mission of the Center for Public Management is to help shape the national debate over the future of American governance, especially as it relates to the facts about the public service, government performance, and the processes by which democratically-enacted public policies are implemented.
The aim of CPM is not to add to the scholarship documenting and explaining failures of policy implementation: rather, it is to head policymakers off at the pass before they carve into law policies that are doomed to failure.
TESTIMONY
Statement Before a Joint Hearing:
Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, U.S. House of
Representatives Committee on Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate
By Donald F. Kettl Director, Center for Public Management.
1. We must tackle both the performance and budget deficits.
2. Performance measurement is the keystone to reducing both deficits.
3. Performance measurement provides Congress with critical information about agencies' strategic decisions
4. Strategic plans provide a road map to achieving results.
5. Performance measurement connects plans with results.
6. Performance management can improve the authorization process.
7. Performance measurement can improve the appropriations process.
8. Performance measurement is no magic bullet -- but it helps congress do what has to be done.
9. Performance measurement can transform the president's budget submission to Congress.
10. Performance measurement can vastly improve congressional policymaking. Let me explore these points in turn.
Constitutional Democracy, by DENNIS C. MUELLER, University of Vienna,
Oxford University Press
"Constitutional Democracy systematically examines how the basic constitutional structure of governments affects what they can accomplish. Mueller illuminates the links between the structure of democratic government and the outcomes it achieves by drawing comparisons between the American system and other government systems around the world.
Working from the "public choice" perspective in political science, the book analyzes electoral rules, voting rules, federalism, bicameralism, citizenship, and separation of powers. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of political economy."
1996, 400 pp., 0-19-509588-X
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