| Titre | Peut-on mesurer la qualité des administrations publiques grâce aux indicateurs de gouvernance ? | |
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| Auteur | M. Steven Van de Walle, Chercheur, Instituut voor de Overheid, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgique | |
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Revue | Revue française d'administration publique |
| Numéro | no 115, décembre 2005 Politiques publiques et innovation sociale | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Politiques publiques et innovation sociale Etudes |
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| Page | 435 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Measuring Bureaucratic Quality in Governance Indicators.
“Indicators of governance” designed for qualitative and comparative approaches of
institutions in various countries are being increasingly used both in research and in
political decision-making. These data, originally used mainly in academic analyses of
economic growth, now has an influence on the conditions governing aid to development.
Some groups of indicators contain measurements of the quality of public administrations,
and could thus make it possible to compare table of administrative performance on an
international level. However, the use of such data for this type of study remains rather
limited, first of all because its validity is often contested, but also because of the
difference between general research on public administration and research on development and/or economic growth (the latter two having been pioneers in the empirical use
of these indicators). In addition, the fact that most of these indicators come from data
collections for economists has been another obstacle to its use for public administration.
However, the debate has been launched again thanks to recent publications featuring a
comparative international study of public administrations. This article reviews the
sources of the most frequently used data and discusses how the latter make it possible to
measure the quality of public administration. It brings to light the strengths and
weaknesses of these indicators and verifies their validity by comparing different
international rankings. Finally, it gives a first preliminary ranking of OECD countries. Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=RFAP_115_0435 |
