Rational planning and politicians' attitudes to spending and reform: replication and extension of a survey experiment
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- Bert George (UGent) , Sebastian Desmidt (UGent) , Poul Nielsen and Martin Baekgaard
- Organization
- Abstract
- The rational planning cycle of formulating strategic goals and using performance information to assess implementation is assumed to assist decision-making by politicians. Empirical evidence for this assumption is, however, scarce. Our study replicates Nielsen and Baekgaard’s (2015) experiment on the relation between performance information and politicians’ attitudes to spending and reform and extends this experiment by investigating the role of strategic goals. Based on a randomized survey experiment with 1.484 Flemish city councilors and an analysis of 225 municipal strategic plans, we found that information on low and high performance as well as strategic goals directly impact decision-making by politicians.
- Keywords
- decision-making, survey experiment, strategic planning, performance measurement, Rational planning
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-7186034
- MLA
- George, Bert, et al. “Rational Planning and Politicians’ Attitudes to Spending and Reform: Replication and Extension of a Survey Experiment.” 2016 IRSPM Annual Conference, 2016.
- APA
- George, B., Desmidt, S., Nielsen, P., & Baekgaard, M. (2016). Rational planning and politicians’ attitudes to spending and reform: replication and extension of a survey experiment. 2016 IRSPM Annual Conference. Presented at the 2016 IRSPM Annual Conference, Hong Kong.
- Chicago author-date
- George, Bert, Sebastian Desmidt, Poul Nielsen, and Martin Baekgaard. 2016. “Rational Planning and Politicians’ Attitudes to Spending and Reform: Replication and Extension of a Survey Experiment.” In 2016 IRSPM Annual Conference.
- Chicago author-date (all authors)
- George, Bert, Sebastian Desmidt, Poul Nielsen, and Martin Baekgaard. 2016. “Rational Planning and Politicians’ Attitudes to Spending and Reform: Replication and Extension of a Survey Experiment.” In 2016 IRSPM Annual Conference.
- Vancouver
- 1.George B, Desmidt S, Nielsen P, Baekgaard M. Rational planning and politicians’ attitudes to spending and reform: replication and extension of a survey experiment. In: 2016 IRSPM Annual Conference. 2016.
- IEEE
- [1]B. George, S. Desmidt, P. Nielsen, and M. Baekgaard, “Rational planning and politicians’ attitudes to spending and reform: replication and extension of a survey experiment,” in 2016 IRSPM Annual Conference, Hong Kong, 2016.
@inproceedings{7186034,
abstract = {{The rational planning cycle of formulating strategic goals and using performance information to assess implementation is assumed to assist decision-making by politicians. Empirical evidence for this assumption is, however, scarce. Our study replicates Nielsen and Baekgaard’s (2015) experiment on the relation between performance information and politicians’ attitudes to spending and reform and extends this experiment by investigating the role of strategic goals. Based on a randomized survey experiment with 1.484 Flemish city councilors and an analysis of 225 municipal strategic plans, we found that information on low and high performance as well as strategic goals directly impact decision-making by politicians.}},
author = {{George, Bert and Desmidt, Sebastian and Nielsen, Poul and Baekgaard, Martin}},
booktitle = {{2016 IRSPM Annual Conference}},
keywords = {{decision-making,survey experiment,strategic planning,performance measurement,Rational planning}},
language = {{eng}},
location = {{Hong Kong}},
title = {{Rational planning and politicians' attitudes to spending and reform: replication and extension of a survey experiment}},
year = {{2016}},
}