Performance Measurement in Spanish Local Governments. An Empirical Study about the State of the Art

Caridad Martí, Vicente Pina and Lourdes Torres

No 234, Apas Papers from Academic Public Administration Studies Archive - APAS

Abstract: It is not possible the assessment of public action efficiency without performance measures. Through the analysis of the implementation and the state of the art of performance measures in the Spanish Local Governments, this paper shows the difficulty of comparing developments of performance measurement systems when adoption is non-mandatory. The results identify different approaches for the adoption of performance measures: decision-making, accountability and just collected for their intrinsic value. Performance indicators have the intrinsic value of giving taxpayers an image of managerial rationality, but the mere collection of performance indicators does not guarantee improvements in decision-making and in accountability.

Keywords: performance measurement; local governments; accountability; decision-m aking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-09-10
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