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100	1	0	_aSalais, Robert _eauthor
245	0	0	_aStatistics Do Not Stand Alone
260			_c2011.
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520			_aDiscourse about performance has hidden the political, ethical, and normative stakes of public management reform with respect to the state’s role and action. The basic problem is that actors from the top down are given incentives—not to achieve the fundamental objectives of public policies, but to directly improve their scores, whatever the means employed, along the performance indicators used to evaluate them. Data objectivity relies upon measurement conventions that are not immune to political motives. The author raises questions on how to reconcile performance and social justice; comparability issues; norms embedded in technical matters, hence without public debate; and political fabrication of data. Research should invest in the emergence of a new political register, that of the cognitive representation of situations.
690			_aindicators
690			_anew public management
690			_aperformance
690			_aPublic policies
690			_aevaluation
690			_ameasurementconventions
786	0		_nRevue française d’administration publique | o 135 | 3 | 2011-01-03 | p. 497-515 | 0152-7401
856	4	1	_uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-francaise-d-administration-publique-2010-3-page-497?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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