Multilevel Asssessment of Hierarchical Governance

ISBN-13: 9783639128772 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 144 str.

Jun Yi Hsieh

Opis

This book estimates the impacts on the use of local management innovations (e.g., adopting performance measures) related to local service delivery contracting. The previous research has only tested local management innovations from an individual local level, rather than estimate how state factors influence local practices, which obviously ignore the federalism in the United States. The model strategies this book employs include local and state variables with a time linear growth and a growth curve estimated by a Hierarchical Linear Model (HLM) and a Hierarchical Generalized Linear Model (HGLM). This book intends to estimate how local contract management capacity and state factors influence the rate of use of performance measurements, as well as to compare their group differences on for-profit contracting and nonprofit contracting. The diffusion of local performance measurement nested in state level did not change significantly over time, but the findings with the linear growth model and growth curve model showed that the adoption of performance measurements indeed had grown over our observed time.

O autorze

Jun Yi Hsieh is Assistant Professor, Department of Social
and Public Affairs, Taipei Municipal University of Education,
Taiwan. He held two Ph. D. in Public Administration and Policy
fields (Florida State University, USA; National Chengchi
University, Taiwan). His research interests include public
management and policy, local governance.