This article examines Performance Management Systems (PMSs) as socio-technical policy
instruments for shaping power relations in megaprojects. Employing an abductive approach …

Quantification of states, corporations, nature or self has become pervasive in the past 40
years. The water world's struggles are rife with, and shaped by, numbers, indicators, metrics …

Scholars have argued that utilization of quantitative performance indicators by public
organizations could generate unintended consequences that might outweigh the benefits of …

Only 18% of global flood losses experienced between 2011 and 2021 were insured.
Governments are increasingly examining ways to transfer financial flood risks to the private …

Performance reporting in sunshine regulation is subjected to disclosure biases, because
agents may game the regulation or encounter difficulties in complying. These biases limit the …

Policy preferences are a key element in understanding the policy process. In this article, we
conceptualise policy preferences as latent constructs, which can be identified in an inductive …

In France, the performance indicators applied to drinking water supply systems tend to be
serviceoriented, making no distinction between residential and non-residential users. In this …

By conceptualizing the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) as a socio-
technical governance instrument, we examine how its social and technical components …