Program Budgeting and the Performance Movement: The Elusive Quest for Efficiency in Government

by William F. West

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1589017773
• ISBN13: 9781589017771
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"