 | Transparency and Performance in Government 
October 21, 2009
Working Papers
Andrew Perraut, Jerry Brito |
| In this working paper, Senior Research Fellow Jerry Brito and Andrew Perraut discuss the importance of mandatory transparency to improve performance in the public sector.
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| Recovery Act Oversight
May 5, 2009
Congressional Testimonies
Jerry Ellig |
| Senior Research Fellow Jerry Ellig presents his ideas on outcome-oriented performance measurement in the Recovery Act in this testimony before the House Committee on Science and Technology, Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight.
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 | 10th Annual Performance Report Scorecard: Which Federal Agencies Best Inform the Public?
May 5, 2009
Scorecard
Henry Wray, Jerry Ellig, Maurice McTigue |
| This Scorecard ranks the quality of disclosure of the Performance and Accountabiltiy Reports of the 24 agencies covered by the Chief Financial Officers Act. Our reserach team looks at criteria in three categories: Transparency, Public Benefits and Forward-Looking Leadership.
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| Federal Performance Reporting After 10 Years: How Does it Measure Up?
May 5, 2009
Mercatus On Policy
Jerry Ellig |
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| Best Practices in Fiscal 2008 Federal Performance Reports
May 1, 2009
Mercatus On Policy
Jerry Ellig |
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| Measuring GPRA's Results
May 1, 2009
Mercatus On Policy
Jerry Ellig |
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 | A Dozen Dangerous Presumptions of Crisis Policymaking
April 22, 2009
Mercatus On Policy
Robert Higgs |
| Throughout U.S. history, Congress and the president have adopted many critically important policies in great haste during brief periods of perceived national emergency. Because formal institutional changes—however hastily they might have been made—have a strong tendency to become entrenched, remaining in effect for many years and sometimes for many decades, crisis policymaking has played an important part in generating long-term growth of government through a ratchet effect in which “temporary” emergency measures have expanded the government’s size, scope, or power permanently.
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 | 21st Century Regulation: Discovering Better Solutions to Enduring Problems
January 7, 2009
Research Papers/Studies
Andrew Perraut, Bruce Yandle, Gary E. Marchant, Henry Wray, Richard Williams, Scott Farrow |
| This publication is the first in a new series of long-term research and discussions focused on finding solutions to the most pressing regulatory hurdles. This compendium consists of five papers addressing multiple regulatory challenges for the new presidency and the federal government to consider.
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| Kentucky’s Open Door
November 12, 2008
Public Interest Comments
Jerry Brito |
| Earlier this year, Gov. Steve Beshear appointed an E-Transparency Task Force to develop and implement a one-stop shop on the internet to allow citizens to easily access information about the state's finances. That Task Force recently asked for public comments on "mockups" of a proposed website design and online disclosure generally.
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| Mercatus on Policy - Opening Government: Mashups
September 9, 2008
Mercatus On Policy
Jerry Brito |
| Making government information available online would not only benefit individual users of government websites, it would also make it simpler for third parties to aggregate government data. By aggregating data, websites can present government information in innovative and useful ways. |
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