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  1. Why Measure Performance? Different Purposes Require Different Measures (2003)
    Robert D. Behn Public Administration Review

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Public Management: Should It Strive to be Art, Science, or Engineering?
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The new public management paradigm and the search for democratic accountability
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The Psychological Barriers to Performance Management: Or Why Isn't Everyone Jumping on the Performance-Management Bandwagon?
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Strategies for Avoiding the Pitfalls of Performance Contracting
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Leadership Counts: Lessons for Public Managers from the Massachusetts Welfare, Training, and Employment Program
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Closing a Government Facility
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On a class of linear stochastic differential games
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The Nature of Knowledge about Public Management: Lessons for Research and Teaching from Our Knowledge about Chess and Warfare
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The Psychological Barriers to Performance Management
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Innovation in American Government : Challenges, Opportunities, and Dilemmas
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What Right Do Public Managers Have to Lead?
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