The Problem with Programs: Multiple Perspectives on Program Structures in Program-Based Performance-Oriented Budgets

doi:10.1111/j.1540-5850.2008.00904.x

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Wiley InterScience

Public Budgeting & Finance

Volume 28 Issue 2, Pages 20 - 47

Published Online: 13 May 2008

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The Problem with Programs: Multiple Perspectives on Program Structures in Program-Based Performance-Oriented Budgets

CAROLYN BOURDEAUX ¹

¹ Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, 14 Marietta Street, Suite 336, Atlanta, GA 30302-3992

Dr. Carolyn Bourdeaux is an assistant professor of Public Administration at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, 14 Marietta Street, Suite 336, Atlanta, GA 30302-3992. She has taken a leave of absence to be Director of the Georgia Senate Budget and Evaluation Office. Her recent publications and research have focused on performance-based budget and legislative budgeting. She can be reached at: padcb@langate.gsu.edu.

ABSTRACT

Often the transition to performance-based budgeting requires the initial development of a program structure. While a substantial body of literature is available to assist governments in developing performance measures, program development has received little recent attention in the scholarly literature. This research draws on a case study of the State of Georgia's effort to develop a program structure. The problems encountered by Georgia provide the foundation for an analysis that explains how programs interact with competing budgetary purposes and agendas. The analysis in turn suggests ways that budget structures might be adjusted to better balance competing purposes.

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