Over the past two decades, governments have become reliant on performance management to address accountability concerns across levels of government, including public and private service providers. Performance management scholarship proliferated along with the ideology that government inefficiency can be improved through management reform (Osborne & Gaebler, 1992). This literature documents how the rise of performance management accompanied both a decrease in administrative capability in the public sector and rise of third-party governance (
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