pt. 1. PART, PMA, BPI, and the quest for results -- pt. 2. State and local government and intergovernmental contexts -- pt. 3. The international context -- pt. 4. Tools for performance management and budgeting.

Small world network models have been effective in capturing the variable behaviour of reported case data of the SARS coronavirus outbreak in Hong Kong during 2003. Simulations of these models have previously been realized using informed “guesses” of the proposed model parameters and tested...