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Hired guns : views about armed contractors in Operation Iraqi Freedom
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ISBN: 1282940503 9786612940507 0833050753 0833049828 9780833050755 9780833049827 9781282940505 6612940506 Year: 2010 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : RAND,

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The use of armed private security contractors (PSCs) in the Iraq war has been unprecedented. Not only government agencies but also journalists, reconstruction contractors, and nongovernmental organizations frequently view them as a logical choice to fill their security needs, yet there have been a number of reports of PSCs committing serious, and sometimes fatal, abuses of power in Iraq. This study uses a systematic, empirically based survey of opinions of U.S. military and State Department personnel on the ground in Iraq to shed light on the following questions: To what extent are armed PSCs perceived to be imposing costs on the U.S. military effort? If so, are those costs tempered by positive contributions? How has the use of PSCs affected U.S. military operations in Operation Iraqi Freedom? While the military personnel did report some incidents of unnecessarily threatening, arrogant, or belligerent contractor behavior, the survey results indicate that neither the U.S. military nor State Department personnel appear to perceive PSCs to be "running wild" in Iraq. Moreover, respondents tended to consider PSCs a force multiplier rather than an additional strain on military troops, but both military and State Department respondents held mixed views regarding the contribution of armed contractors to U.S. foreign policy objectives.

Measuring the performance of the hollow state
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ISBN: 9781589011199 1589011198 1589013662 1435627202 9781435627208 9781589013667 Year: 2006 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press,

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Measuring the Performance of the Hollow State is the first in-depth look at the influence of performance measurement on the effectiveness of the federal government. To do this, the authors examine the influence of the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (with consideration of the later Program Assessment Rating Tool of 2002) on federal performance measurement, agency performance, and program outcomes. They focus a systematic examination on five agencies in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Servicesùthe Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service

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Contracting out --- Subcontracting --- Government productivity --- Impartition --- Sous-traitance --- Administration publique --- Evaluation --- Case studies --- Etudes de cas --- Productivité --- United States. --- Contracting out -- United States -- Evaluation -- Case studies. --- Subcontracting -- United States -- Case studies. --- United States. Dept. of Health and Human Services -- Evaluation. --- Contract Services --- Evaluation Studies as Topic --- Federal Government --- Efficiency --- Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms --- Government --- Investigative Techniques --- Psychology, Industrial --- Financial Management --- Social Sciences --- Psychology, Applied --- Economics --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Organizations --- Quality of Health Care --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Psychological Phenomena and Processes --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Health Care --- Industrial Management --- Management --- Business & Economics --- #SBIB:35H202 --- Overheidsmanagement: prestatiemanagement --- Evaluation. --- Productivité --- Productivity, Government --- Sub-contracting --- Subcontracts --- Contract services --- Contracting for services --- Outsourcing --- Services, Contracting for --- Law and legislation --- D.H.H.S. --- DHHS --- H.H.S. --- HHS --- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services --- U.S. Health and Human Services --- Capital productivity --- Production (Economic theory) --- Public administration --- Letting of contracts --- Privatization --- Public contracts

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