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Program Budgeting and the Performance Movement
William F. West
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Description for Program Budgeting and the Performance Movement
Paperback. Examines the checkered history of program budgeting (PPB) as a means of rationalizing the allocation of resources within and across government agencies. This book includes a study of the adoption and effects of PPB at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Series: Public Management and Change Series. Num Pages: 176 pages, 5 figures, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPP; KJMV1. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 249.
Formal systems of comprehensive planning and performance-based management have a long if disappointing history in American government. This is illustrated most dramatically by the failure of program budgeting (PPB) in the 1960s and resurrection of that management technique in a handful of agencies over the past decade. Beyond its present application, the significance of PPB lies in its relationship to the goals and assumptions of popular reforms associated with the performance movement. Program Budgeting and the Performance Movement examines PPB from its inception in the Department of Defense under Robert McNamara to its limited resurgence in recent ... Read more
Formal systems of comprehensive planning and performance-based management have a long if disappointing history in American government. This is illustrated most dramatically by the failure of program budgeting (PPB) in the 1960s and resurrection of that management technique in a handful of agencies over the past decade. Beyond its present application, the significance of PPB lies in its relationship to the goals and assumptions of popular reforms associated with the performance movement. Program Budgeting and the Performance Movement examines PPB from its inception in the Department of Defense under Robert McNamara to its limited resurgence in recent ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Georgetown University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Series
Public Management and Change Series
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Washington, DC, United States
ISBN
9781589017771
SKU
V9781589017771
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About William F. West
William F. West is a professor and Sara Lindsey Chair in the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University.
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