Government Authority Matrix

• Vertical Axis (y): Government Monopoly Power is ascribed to the principal axis (domain space) denoting the boundary values on which authority (or function) is appraised and defined. This principal axis measures the efficacy of national policy autonomy.

• Horizontal Axis (x): Public Value is attributed to the secondary axis (range values) that evidence the qualitative magnitude of national outcomes (output values) consequential to the prevailing governmental authority (the function). Public value identifies the competency of the national regimes of authority.

MATRIX CLUSTER FORMATION

Governance

(a) High Governmental Power: The executive government exhibits high standards of managerial capacity for due administration, bureaucracy, and executive authority. The system of government retains effective influence over the society and polity.

(b) High Public Value: The government achieves high measures of public value via competent implementation of e-government, and enhanced deployment of jurisdictional powers by processes of leveraged governance.

Compliance

(a) Low Governmental Power: The executive government exhibits long-standing compliance with bureaucratic conventions and is habituated to processes of cooperation and policy transfer.

(b) High Public Value: Characteristic of administrative and bureaucratic states, the government through a legacy of accordance and compromise with counterparts, is able to attain tractability and overt measures of success on dimensions of public accountability (new public management) and public utility (social satisfaction).

Performance

(a) High Governmental Power: The executive government exhibits high standards of managerial capacity for due administration, bureaucracy, and executive authority. The system of government retains effective influence over the society and polity.

(b) Low Public Value: The government delivers inferior qualitative standards of national outcomes. In the productive sphere, the allocative function is proficient and robust to secure measures of national wealth, however the redistributive function is distorted, dis-accomplished, and fails to realise measures of societal welfare.

Resilience

(a) Low Governmental Power: Representative government is inhibited by diminished managerial capacity and deficient apparatuses of government. This is manifested by incompetence and/or inability to successfully leverage power and deliver performance requirements.

(b) Low Public Value: While persistent and resilient, the government fails to effectually manage available resources, people, and civil and political institutions. National outcomes are debilitated by exiguous government.

Useful links for Country Resilience:

> 'Conceptualising 'Resilience', Wikipedia Commons

> 'Concepts & Dilemmas of State Building in Fragile Situations', OECD

> 'Global Risk Atlas 2012', Maplecroft

REFERENCES

Matrix Adapted from Bourgnon, J (2009) New Governance & Public Administration: Towards a Dynamic Synthesis. Canada School of Public Service.

HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE

PFM (2012) Government Authority Matrix. The Policy Framework. RDX e-Publishing.