Zachary S. Huitink and David M Van Slyke

Zachary S. Huitink is a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Public Administration and International Affairs at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He is a research associate at the Maxwell School’s Campbell Public Affairs Institute, as well as at Syracuse University’s Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF), a research and service organization focused on veterans’ and military family members’ socioeconomic, educational, health, and employment issues.

Model 2: Siloed Performance Systems

(a continuation from the December 23, 2009 blog on “Managing Performance”)

Managing Performance: A Series

Remember the YouTube phenomena, “The Evolution of Dance?” I have been reading a book, “Managing Performance: International Comparisons” by two highly-regarded foreign academics – Geert Bouckaert (a Belgian) and John Halligan (an Australian). Their book could well have been named: “The Evolution of Performance!”

Case Studies in Merging the Administrations of Social Security Contribution and Taxation

Nothing is stable in social security and, thus, the social security structures and financing mechanisms are constantly evolving.Therefore, governments may need to adapt these structures and mechanisms to the new circumstances, especially those arising after the recent economic downturn. Still remains the question how we can move forward in social security with efficiency and effectiveness with regard to the financing of the social security schemes.