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Addressing Attribution through Contribution Analysis: Using Performance Measures Sensibly
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Abstract: The changing culture of public administration involves accountability for results and outcomes. This article suggests that performance measurement can address such attribution questions. Contribution analysis has a major role to play in helping managers, researchers, and policymakers to arrive at conclusions about the contribution their program has made to particular outcomes. The article describes the steps necessary to produce a credible contribution story.
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Contribution analysis triangulates data from multiple sources to assess how an intervention contributes to specific outcomes.
“Contribution analysis triangulates data from multiple sources to assess how an intervention contributes to specific outcomes (Mayne, 2001).”
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“Contribution analysis (Mayne 2012b, 2008, 2001) and process tracing (Beach and Pedersen 2011; Collier 2011; Bennett 2010, 2008) both seek to make causal inferences about cause and effect using non-counterfactual approaches based on similar analysis tools: causal mechanisms and theories of change.”
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“Contribution analysis triangulates data from multiple sources to assess how an intervention contributes to specific outcomes (Mayne, 2001 ).”
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- Authors
- Mayne, J.
- Affiliations
- Government of Canada (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Mayne, John
- Venue
- Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation
- Publisher
- University of Victoria Libraries
- Published
- 2001-03
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-24
- ISSN
- 0834-1516 (ISSN-L)
- 1496-7308
- OpenAlex
- W2113515522
- Cited by
- 350
- References
- 8
- Citations by year
- 2026: 17 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 22 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 17 · 2019: 23 · 2018: 20 · 2017: 19 · 2016: 14 · 2015: 20 · 2014: 27 · 2013: 16 · 2012: 18
- FWCI
- 8.53
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Locations
- Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Public Administration › Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Social Sciences › Public Administration › Public Policy and Administration Research
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
- Keywords
- contribution analysis, performance measurement, attribution, program outcomes, accountability, public administration, program evaluation, causal inference
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