Performance Management in Public Administration: Old Recipes or a New Model?

Russia has accumulated significant experience in developing and applying performance management instruments and mechanisms. However, the expected impact of these approaches, such as improved efficiency of public spending or better governance effectiveness, has not been achieved. The reasons for lack of progress in applying performance management are often linked to the approach that any such practices demonstrate a return to the methods used in administrative planning economy. This article proposes the ways to overcome formalistic approaches to planning, monitoring, and evaluation of results and supports the key principles for implementing performance management as a model of governance as well as reviews the conditions for introducing such a model.