MULTILEVEL ASSSESSMENT OF HIERARCHICAL GOVERNANCE

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.

Autorentext

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.

Klappentext

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.