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100			_aSandfort, Jodi
245			_aDo government tools influence organizational performance? Examining their implementation in early childhood education
260			_c2008
300			_ap.412-38.
362			_aDec
520			_aThis article explores whether the multiple tools used by government to implement social policy influence organizational performance. This analysis focuses on three tools - grants, contracts, and vouchers - and their use in the field of early childhood care and education. Through analysis of a field-based study of 22 organizations, the authors explore qualitative evidence and examine the relative consequences of each tool using multivariate modeling. the authors conceptualize organizational performance along four dimensions - management capacity, management outcomes, program capacity, and program outcomes - to better explore how government tools influence organizations delivering publicly funded services. Findings reveal that the different tools the government uses to implement early childhood programs have distinct consequences; grants have the most significant, positive consequences on a variety of desirable outcomes. - Reproduced.
650			_aEarly childhood education
650			_aPerformance appraisal
650			_aPublic administration
700			_aSowa, Jessica E.
700			_aSelden, Sally Coleman
773			_aAmerican Review of Public Administration
908			_aN
909			_a81229
999			_c81229 _d81229