This Never Would Have Happened if Sir Humphrey Was in Charge
If you are familiar with the BBC series, Yes, Minister , you may recall an episode entitled "The Challenge" where the Minister of Administrative Affairs, Jim Hacker , plans on implementing pre-set failure standards on local governments plans to determine if they are successes or failures. The criteria were to be described in the documentation for the plan so that everyone would know if something worked or not. I came across and interesting website today put up by the United States government called ExpectMore.gov . This website purports to show what government programs are " Performing " and " Not Performing ." I take it that there are some performance standards built-in to every government program that makes it possible to gauge if they are a success or failure. Programs that are "Performing" are rated as " Effective ," " Moderately effective ," or " Adequate ." Programs that are " Not Performing " are ...