Assessing Governmental Performance: An Analytical Framework

This study aims to provide an analytic framework, a theory of knowledge that identifies the kinds of structures and processes required for directing human action and the criteria for evaluating them. It builds on Meehan’s earlier works and is intended for political and social scientists and graduate students. The book opens with a description of the author’s theory of knowledgement , then identifies how to fulfill empirical and normative requirements. Applying the critical apparatus to governmental actions, it examines the outlook for the future and the role in the process of the university and past performance. Meehan calls for an agreed epistemological base grounded in experience for critiquing governmental policy and behaviour and improving it.