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Now Available Online: Engaging the Public in Local Government
Performance Measurement and Reporting
The special issue of the National Civic Review on citizens and
government performance measurement and reporting is now available
to the public in its entirety online. Topics include ComNET, an
innovative program that allows citizens with hand-held computers
to report street level problems to local government; "warts-and-all"
performance reporting in Des Moines, Iowa; and the relationship
between the community indicators movement and the field of performance
reporting and measurement.
Produced with support and assistance from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation,
the issue includes articles from some of the leading pioneers in
the field, including guest editor Barbara J. Cohn Berman, vice president
of the Fund for the City of New York, Ted Greenwood, program director
of the Sloan Foundation, and Marc Holzer, dean of the School of
Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers University-Newark.
"We hope the sum of these articles will serve as a valuable
resource for our readership of civic activists, local government
officials, academics, and nonprofit groups," said National
Civic League senior editor Mike McGrath. "Engaging citizens
in performance measurement and reporting is one of several ways
that local government is reinventing itself for the 21st Century."
NCR is published under a joint arrangement with the publisher Jossey-Bass,
an imprint of John Wiley & Sons, which owns the copyright for
the quarterly journal. Under our joint publishing agreement, NCL
normally posts two articles from each issue on the NCL Web site.
In order to give maximum exposure for this important topic, however,
the publisher has made the entire issue available @: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117946203/grouphome/home.html
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