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Implementing Performance-Based Program Budgeting: A System-Dynamics Perspective

Gloria A. Grizzle and Carole D. Pettijohn

Public Administration Review, January/February 2002, pp. 51-62.

This article discusses the factors that have either facilitated or hindered the implementation of performance-based budgeting in the State of Florida. The authors use a system dynamics model to describe the interrelationship between the factors that affect budget implementation. They categorize their discussion into four critical implementation factors: communication, resources, dispositions, and bureaucratic structure. Based on their analysis, the authors make several recommendations for a successful implementation of performance-based budgeting in the State of Florida. These recommendations include changing the legislature's...