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National Performance Mandates and Intergovernmental Collaboration

An Examination of the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART)

Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg, Middletown

This exploratory research is aimed at offering insights into how intergovernmental dependencies influence Program Assessment Rating Tools (PART) ratings under circumstances when federal funds and responsibility are delegated downward in the system. The research offers formal support for the hypothesis that programs carried out under such circumstances score relatively lower on those portions of the PART instrument that are dependent on intergovernmental collaboration. The findings are important in that they draw attention to an opportunity to improve the consistency of PART ratings across programs. Specifically, they suggest that it may be necessary to revise the instrument to include questions that recognizes and gives credit to efforts of intergovernmental collaborative efforts as part of the PART scoring process.

Key Words: performance budgeting • intergovernmental collaboration • Program Assessment Rating Tool • PART

This version was published on December 1, 2009

The American Review of Public Administration, Vol. 39, No. 6, 619-639 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0275074008326589


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