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Assessing Public Service Performance in Local Authorities Through CPA - A Research Note on Deprivation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2020

Dirk Haubrich  and
Iain S McLean
Dirk Haubrich*
Affiliation:
Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
Iain S McLean
Affiliation:
Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
*
e-mail: Dirk.Haubrich@politics.ox.ac.uk
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Abstract

The UK Government places ever-greater weight on performance assessment of local public bodies through comprehensive performance assessments (CPA). However, the CPA assessment framework has been criticised for its disregard of local factors that are beyond the control of local authorities but that affect their performance. In this article, the assessment framework is described and three different studies are appraised that have investigated the link between deprivation, as one of these external constraints, and CPA performance. Suggestions are developed as to how the analysis can be improved, by extending the choice of dependent variables and explanatory variables so as to be able to use panel data as the investigative method.

Keywords

Structure, scope and performance of governmentState and local governmentHealth, education and welfareModels with panel dataRegional government analysis - generalH11H75C23R50
Type
Articles
Information
National Institute Economic Review , Volume 197 , 01 July 2006 , pp. 93 - 105
Copyright
Copyright © 2006 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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