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- Title
Implementing Performance-Based Program Budgeting: A System-Dynamics Perspective.
- Authors
Grizzle, Gloria A.; Pettijohn, Carole D.
- Abstract
The article proposes a model for evaluating budget reforms that combines insights from budgeting, policy implementation, and system-dynamics literatures. System-dynamics modeling combines both quantitative and qualitative research techniques to provide a new framework for applied research; its use is illustrated using performance budgeting as an example. Applied to the implementation of Florida's performance-based program budget, the model identifies actions in the short run that will increase the reform's likelihood of success: providing clear communications; facilitative budget and accounting routines; reliable performance information. The model also identifies critical legislative behaviors that influence executive implementation: how the legislature in the long-run uses performance information to inform resource allocation and how it applies incentives or sanctions to programs that achieve or fail to achieve their performance standards. The legislature has the opportunity to use program reviews prepared by legislative staff to invigorate the executive branch's resolve to continue implementing the reform.
- Subjects
FLORIDA; ECONOMIC policy; EDUCATIONAL programs; BUDGET; ECONOMIC reform; INFORMATION resources; LABOR productivity; MANAGEMENT controls; ORGANIZATIONAL effectiveness; PERFORMANCE standards
- Publication
Public Administration Review, 2002, Vol 62, Issue 1, p51
- ISSN
0033-3352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1540-6210.00154