Despite a growing movement toward accountability in the public sector, little research exists on factors affecting the use of accountability tools such as performance measurement. Many publications suggest how to use performance measures, but little is known about why some municipalities use...

Over the last year the German government has introduced a comprehensive set of labor market policy reforms, the so-called Hartz reforms, which aim at a significant reduction of unemployment. To this end, (a) many of the existing instruments of active labor market policy are modified...