Mission-Extrinsic Public Values as an Extension of Regime Values

Abstract

The academic fields of public administration and public management are diverging. Public management focuses primarily on the orthodox values of efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and value for money. It views accountability from the perspective of obtaining results (outcomes) defined in terms of core mission objectives and the operations that are ancillary to their achievement, such as deploying financial, human, and other resources cost-effectively. Public administration is also interested in all of the above. However, it retains the field's broad interest in regime values and other public values. This analysis seeks to provide a clearer conception of missionextrinsic public values and their centrality to public administration in the United States and the People's Republic of China.

Does Contracting Achieve Better Performance for Democratic-Constitutional, Procedural Tasks? Evidence From the EEO Discrimination Complaint Process

“…Table 1 summarizes the definitions and main examples of DCP values and tasks in detail. To begin with, DCP values can be broadly defined as the values that an agency pursues according to legislation and the Constitution, including equity, transparency, individual rights, and due process, above and beyond specific program requirements (Baehler et al, 2014;Piotrowski et al, 2018). Piotrowski and Rosenbloom (2002) also describe democratic-constitutional values as non-mission-based or mission-extrinsic values that are "neither mission based nor part of a results-oriented calculus" (p. 643).…”

“…The values that an agency pursues according to legislation and the Constitution Often known as non-mission-based or mission-extrinsic values (Baehler et al, 2014 DCP values for most agencies, with the exception of the National Archives and Records Administration, in that transparency is embodied in FOIA but is not necessarily reflected in agencies' performance plans. In this case, compliance with FOIA requests can be considered as a DCP task that ultimately pursues transparency.…”

The politics of performance measurement in China

“…The central government took the lead to reduce the minimum target of annual national economic growth and adjusted the components of economic targets toward quality development. 4 Various researches notice the increasing use of noneconomic targets in PM and the increasing weight assigned to them (Baehler et al, 2014;Gao, 2010;Rosenbloom & Hahm, 2010;Walker & Wu, 2010). For example, municipalities in Fujian Province in 2006 were measured in terms of sustainable development (32%), harmonious society construction (25%), administration by law (18%) and progress in modernization (25%) (Zhou, 2010, pp.…”

“…Nonetheless, it is not rare that PM conflicts with these political values. Regimes values or the so-called mission-extrinsic values (Baehler et al, 2014), may divert agencies from PM efforts or complicate its adoption and implementation. Rosenbloom's (1983) three-approach perspective highlights the competing values and their institutional watchdogs under a separation of powers system.…”