PSCI 3325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Counterfactual Conditional, Sampling Error, Microsoft Onenote
27 Jan 2017
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Thursday, september 29, 2016 12:24 pm: government accountability of ce. Created in 1921 when congress tried to standardize budget process. Auditing rm, like private accounting, to audit books of government agencies. Ensure agencies were spending the money they were supposed to in ways they were supposed to. Audits don"t tell you if the spending is any good, just that money was spent as speci ed. Renamed and new mandate in 1980 to try and do more than just basic audits, nd if programs are. 15 year term that cannot be renewed for the comptroller general. Mostly respond to requests from congress to evaluate programs and issue reports. Need to look at the statue to determine what the program is supposed to be achieving: simple in for-pro t programs, are you turning a pro t, goal speci cation, can be pretty useful at times, measurement.
