520 Pages
    by Routledge

    520 Pages
    by Routledge

    Performance Based Budgetingis the next volume in the ASPA Classics series. It covers the most influential, paramount research articles published on public budgeting and finance. The book will surely be of great interest and use to anyone concerned with public budgeting, and anyone enrolled in, or teaching, a course on this topic in an MPA program or a doctoral program in public administration, public affairs, political science, or economics/public finance.

    Introduction , Origins and Development , Theory, Conceptualization, and Critique , Toward a Theory of Budgeting , The Science of Muddling Through , Political Implications of Budgetary Reform , The Road to PPB , A Budget for All Seasons? , Does Budget Format Really Govern the Actions of Budgetmakers? , Recent Budget Practices Revealed , Budgeting for Results: Recent Developments in Five Industrialized Countries , Entrepreneurial Budgeting: An Emerging Reform? , Mission-Driven, Results-Oriented Budgeting , Evaluation of Budgeting for Performance , Budgeting and Productivity in State Government: Not Integrated But Friendly , Linking Performance to Funding Decisions: What Is the Budgeter's Role? , Management Through Budgetary Incentives , Performance-Based Budgeting , Strategy , Strategic Planning in State and Local Government , Strategy, Values, and Productivity , Strategy for Public and Third-Sector Organizations , Strategic Management in the Public Sector: Concepts, Models, and Processes , Performance Management , Applying Professional Disclosure Standards to Productivity Financial Analyses , Designing Appropriate Control Mechanisms for Managing Performance in the Federal Sector , Integrating Evaluation and Budgeting , Performance Measures for Budget Justifications: Developing a Selection Strategy , Analyzing the Contracting-Out of Government Services , Bureaucracy, Organizational Redundancy, and the Privatization of Public Services , Service Efforts and Accomplishments Reporting , A Proper Mentality for Benchmarking , Can Public Officials Correctly be Said to Have Obligations to Future Generations? , Pay for Performance , Merit Pay, Performance Targeting, and Productivity , The Paradox of Merit Pay in the Public Sector: Persistence of a Problematic Procedure , Of Pigs in Pokes and Policy Diffusion

    Biography

    Gerald Miller