The importance of performance information in Flemish municipal councils

This paper explores the status of performance information in a local political setting. The NPM discourse assigns a new steering role to politicians as strategic decision makers. Logically, this should lead to an increased use of performance information. However, we notice that this is not automatically the case. There is a discrepancy between the intended and the actual use of performance information. Some explanation might be found in the fact that political and economic rationality generate divergent objectives. Politicians have a different perspective on performance information than the on... Mehr ...