IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ntj/journl/v42y1989i1p29-44.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Measuring Government Performance: The Case of Government Waste

Author

Listed:
  • Reid, Gary J.

Abstract

Proposes a method of monitoring government performance by modeling citizens' perceptions of government waste as some positive function of actual waste, technologically efficient costs, and waste perceptions reflecting idiosyncratic perceptual screens. Illustrated that it is feasible to employ survey responses from individual citizens revealing their assessment of how well their government is performing.

Suggested Citation

  • Reid, Gary J., 1989. "Measuring Government Performance: The Case of Government Waste," National Tax Journal, National Tax Association;National Tax Journal, vol. 42(1), pages 29-44, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:ntj:journl:v:42:y:1989:i:1:p:29-44
    DOI: 10.1086/NTJ41788771
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1086/NTJ41788771
    Download Restriction: Access is restricted to subscribers and members of the National Tax Association.
    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1086/NTJ41788771
    Download Restriction: Access is restricted to subscribers and members of the National Tax Association.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1086/NTJ41788771?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Beck, John H., 1990. "Measuring Government Performance: Comment," National Tax Journal, National Tax Association;National Tax Journal, vol. 43(2), pages 217-218, June.
    2. Gary J. Reid, 1990. "Perceived Government Waste and Government Structure: an Empirical Examination of Competing Explanations," Public Finance Review, , vol. 18(4), pages 395-419, October.
    3. Tawfeeq Mohammed Alanazi, 2018. "Practice of Entrepreneurial Orientation in the Governmental Sector," International Journal of Business Administration, International Journal of Business Administration, Sciedu Press, vol. 9(4), pages 148-165, July.
    4. Beck, John H., 1990. "Measuring Government Performance: Comment," National Tax Journal, National Tax Association, vol. 43(2), pages 217-18, June.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ntj:journl:v:42:y:1989:i:1:p:29-44. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: The University of Chicago Press (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.ntanet.org/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.