Sentences with phrase «prodding public sector institutions»

Similarly, when it came to the idea that the feds needed to force states to act, we wrote «Prodding public sector institutions to set goals, monitor performance, and then reward excellence and address mediocrity has been a signal success for reformers on both the left and the right... Sensibly structured accountability systems encourage self - interested workers to take goals seriously, focus on outcomes, and employ all the levers at their disposal to produce those outcomes.