Rational planning and politicians’ preferences for spending and reform : replication and extension of a survey experiment
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- Bert George (UGent) , Sebastian Desmidt (UGent) , Poul Aaes Nielsen and Martin Baekgaard
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- The rational planning cycle of formulating strategic goals and using performance information to assess goal implementation is assumed to assist decision-making by politicians. Empirical evidence supporting this assumption is scarce. Our study replicates a Danish experiment on the relation between performance information and politicians‘ preferences for spending and reform and extends this experiment by investigating the role of strategic goals. Based on a randomized survey experiment (1.484 Flemish city councillors) and an analysis of 225 strategic plans, we found that information on low and high performance as well as strategic goals impact politicians’ preferences for spending and reform.
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- 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-8044174
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- George, Bert, et al. “Rational Planning and Politicians’ Preferences for Spending and Reform : Replication and Extension of a Survey Experiment.” PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW, vol. 19, no. 9, 2017, pp. 1251–71, doi:10.1080/14719037.2016.1210905.
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- George, B., Desmidt, S., Nielsen, P. A., & Baekgaard, M. (2017). Rational planning and politicians’ preferences for spending and reform : replication and extension of a survey experiment. PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW, 19(9), 1251–1271. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2016.1210905
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- George, Bert, Sebastian Desmidt, Poul Aaes Nielsen, and Martin Baekgaard. 2017. “Rational Planning and Politicians’ Preferences for Spending and Reform : Replication and Extension of a Survey Experiment.” PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW 19 (9): 1251–71. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2016.1210905.
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- George, Bert, Sebastian Desmidt, Poul Aaes Nielsen, and Martin Baekgaard. 2017. “Rational Planning and Politicians’ Preferences for Spending and Reform : Replication and Extension of a Survey Experiment.” PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW 19 (9): 1251–1271. doi:10.1080/14719037.2016.1210905.
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- 1.George B, Desmidt S, Nielsen PA, Baekgaard M. Rational planning and politicians’ preferences for spending and reform : replication and extension of a survey experiment. PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW. 2017;19(9):1251–71.
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- [1]B. George, S. Desmidt, P. A. Nielsen, and M. Baekgaard, “Rational planning and politicians’ preferences for spending and reform : replication and extension of a survey experiment,” PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW, vol. 19, no. 9, pp. 1251–1271, 2017.
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