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Successes and Failures S. 99-104

„… examples of successful innovations by public entrepreneurs.Programs can be considered political successes …” „… makes it difficult to determine whether or not a program has been politically success-ful. Nevertheless …” „… 998Successes and FailuresWe claim that the Results program was a success. The word gets thrown …”

Changing Course S. 86-98

„… success.Having publicly facing targets, together with regular publication of prog-ress, meant the program became …” „… success in at least three of its goals. Alternatively, it could set new, more difficult targets to keep …” „… indicator of success than reaching targets. A prominent news-paper reported that “about two- thirds of the …”

Introduction S. 1-8

„… many of the practices used around the world, with varying success.In 2012, they tried a new approach …” „… perfectly designed or was a universal success. Much of this book focuses on the successes of the program …” „… successes were accompanied by failures. Ultimately, not all the targets were met. In 2017, the government of …”

Index S. 275-backcover1

„… , 178–179; setting number of priorities, 31, 91, 137–141, 153; steering groups, 173; successes/failures, 2 …” „… , 129; case study method to explore success, 129; challenges, 67–68; collective responsibility, 68–71 …” „… ; existing factors, 16–19; expectancy in goal commit-ment, 136, 137–161; factors for suc-cess, 128; funding …”

Valence in Goal Commitment S. 202-244

„… success.Scott-Boyd_Targeting Commitment_i-xvi_1-292.indd 236 12/16/21 4:10 PMAppendix 2 237Amber Progress, but issues to …” „… difference and being praised for this by the media. But with this focus on improvement, the final success or …” „… hallmarks of entrepreneurial behavior— would be encouraged when success was praised and when innovators were …”

Emic and Etic Perspectives S. 127-136

„… success.The first evaluation, the etic study with Professor Eugene Bardach men-tioned above, was a comparative …” „… success in that it enabled public entrepreneurs to overcome the status quo to try new things that made a …” „… inter-agency working indicated that successes and failures can best be understood in terms of transaction costs …”

The Holy Grail of Public Administration S. 20-27

„… problems in a specific context. Simply copying the Results program is unlikely to recreate its success. The …” „… the principles that underlie that success. In this way, the text is intended to present generalizable …” „… commitment).Horizontal management remains a costly and fraught endeavor, and suc-cess is very difficult.21 Nonetheless …”

Governance in Aotearoa New Zealand S. 9-19

„… demonstrating process successes, such as a joint strategy or a Scott-Boyd_Targeting Commitment_i-xvi_1-292.indd …” „… greatest number of joint statements. Process success is one type of policy success Alan McConnell …” „… community?21Some of the sectors achieved some success, for example, the natural resource sector colocated …”

Preface S. i-xvi

„… themselves to sustain success.For the most disadvantaged, state institutions are too often untrustworthy …” „… Commitment offers success stories from New Zealand, where the government used interagency goals-setting to …” „… managers collectively responsible; use lead indicators; and learn from both success and failure. Using case …”

Instrumentality in Goal Commitment S. 161-201

„… it is not strictly “fair” to blame them for the success or failure.Three important paradoxes or …” „… start from insalubrious conditions, with low prospects of success, have to make the effort. In some …” „… school qualification is necessary for students to achieve success in tertiary education, and a base …”

Public Entrepreneurship S. 113-126

„… had increasing success in finding solutions that could be sold, some as successful exports. Small …” „… addressing. It was clear from the outset that success would mean considerable innovation, and a willingness …” „… executives put the success down to spreading what was learned from innovation in pilot areas to other areas …”

Expectancy in Goal Commitment S. 137-160

„… target measures to determine success.There is some variation between the two Results here. Officials …” „… finite number of items. Part of the success of the Results program was that, with only ten problems, each …” „… “national identity.” Public servants knew their project had a greater chance of success and access to …”

Gaming and Cheating S. 105-112

„… administrative data are used as the basis for making judgments about success or failure in a high- stakes …” „… time- bound targets, it is not a case of “better late than never” but rather that late successes do not …” „… and find less success in the workforce. The decision to set the Result 2 target at a participation …”

Something New Does Work S. 28-38

„… world that had claimed success in improving the performance of public services. This was despite the …” „… variation in performance— like a jurisdiction experiencing programmatic success— can be discounted due to …” „… . Baltimore CitiStatNYPD’s great success in reducing crime in the 1990s attracted significant attention …”

The Results Program S. 49-66

„… in welfare dependence, providing strong synecdoche; the target would drive specific action; success …” „… future educational success, particularly for children from vulnerable families. Time spent in early …” „… target:Success in education is an essential contribution to the Government’s goals of: economic growth that …”

Implementation S. 67-85

„… used to hold individual chief executives respon-sible for the success or failure of the group of …” „… especially true for reporting of successes or failures. Funding Funding government- wide improvement as part …” „… features that contributed to its success, including periodicity, perspective, and recognition. Public …”

Notes S. 245-274

„… Administra-tion, 76(1), 138–144.19. See: McConnell, A. (2010). “Policy Success, Policy Failure and Grey Areas …” „… ), 517–538.2. Nove, A. (1958). “The Problem of Success Indicators in Soviet Industry.” Eco-nomica 25(97), 1–13 …” „… PMNotes to Pages 99–102 255Chapter 81. See: McConnell, A. (2010). “Policy Success, Policy Failure and Grey …”

Development S. 39-48

„… can achieve great things within a set target and a chal-lenge is leveraging off successes across the …” „… together if their efforts were to be suc-cessful. Work to address these ten problems became collectively …” „… their efforts were to be successful. These features indicate that the problems selected for the Better …”