Measuring Government Performance to Promote Transparency

My wife, Katherine Barrett, and I have written a great deal about state

and local government. Along the way, evaluation has emerged as

our area of specialty. We try to discern how effectively government

does a number of things, most of them management related.

Pews Government Performance Project

The Government Performance Project is an effort funded by (and now

within) the Pew Center on the States that examines each of the fifty state

governments every three years in four major areas of m