International Comparisons of Public Sector Performance
本文探讨了测量和比较各国公共部门整体绩效所需的前提共识，指出这依赖于对定义和目标的共识而非更优定义，并分析了政治学与经济学研究传统在处理这种共识和假设跳跃上的差异及其对政策制定者的影响。
Abstract Measuring and comparing the overall performance of countries' public sectors requires agreement on definitions and objectives of government. I argue that such an agreement is about finding a consensus rather than about finding better definitions. Measuring government requires a number of leaps of faith, where certain definitions, assumptions and statistics are accepted as good enough for measurement and comparison. The political science and economic research community have a different tradition of dealing with such agreements and leaps of faith, and this is reflected in their approaches to measuring and comparing the performance of public sectors. The implications of these traditions are particularly visible in the usefulness of measurement and indicators for policy makers.