Yearly Archives: 2014

Targets in Public Policy: Disciplining or Signaling?

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Targets have become a popular tool for galvanising improvements to public services across OECD countries. But targets also have an important signaling function: they they can be adopted to signal commitment to, or underscore achievement of, a range of political or organizational goals. In a new paper prepared as part of the Politics of Monitoring   …Continue Reading