Public Service Professionalism for Performance Measurement and Evaluation

Caiden, Naomi

doi:10.1046/j.0275-1100.1998.01133.x

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“…The concept of capacity and capacity building in performance budgeting is not new (Andrews, 2004;Caiden, 1998;Hendrick, 2000;Wang, 2000). For example, performance budgeting capacity, measured by the number of budget analysts employed in state budget offices, is the only variable that realized statistical significance in Jordan and Hachbart's (1999) performance budgeting logistic analysis.…”

Section: Data Collection and Measurementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Performance Budgeting in American States: A Framework of Integrating Performance with Budgeting

Willoughby

2015

International Journal of Public Administration

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The past 20 years have witnessed ongoing endeavors researching the factors that influence the implementation of performance budgeting. While various factors have been identified, the effort to build frameworks is still lacking. This research proposes a framework to study the nature of relationships among various political, economic, legal, and organizational factors with performance budgeting, as evidenced in US state governments. We found that the presence and the characteristics of the legal foundation, managing for performance, shared responsibilities with the legislature, and capacity building are the most important factors. The environmental factors, however, are not statistically significant.

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Section: Data Collection and Measurementmentioning

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Performance Budgeting in American States: A Framework of Integrating Performance with Budgeting

Willoughby

2015

International Journal of Public Administration

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“…During the intervening period, the executive branch learned to make the document more understandable and the legislature hired professional staff trained in PB 2 methods (Skok 1980). Caiden (1998) and Murphey (1999) caution us that performance information won't be used unless the stakeholders are willing to build capacity and cooperate in developing and using performance information.…”

Section: Moving the Implementation Forwardmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Grizzle

Pettijohn

2002

Public Administration Review

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The article proposes a model for evaluating budget reforms that combines insights from budgeting, policy implementation, and system-dynamics literatures. System-dynamics modeling combines both quantitative and qualitative research techniques to provide a new framework for applied research; its use is illustrated using performance budgeting as an example. Applied to the implementation of Florida's performance-based program budget, the model identifies actions in the short run that will increase the reform's likelihood of success: providing clear communications; facilitative budget and accounting routines; reliable performance information. The model also identifies critical legislative behaviors that influence executive implementation: how the legislature in the long-run uses performance information to inform resource allocation and how it applies incentives or sanctions to programs that achieve or fail to achieve their performance standards. The legislature has the opportunity to use program reviews prepared by legislative staff to invigorate the executive branch's resolve to continue implementing the reform.Throughout the last century, state and local governments were laboratories for budget reform. Many reforms were heralded but never implemented; others were implemented initially but did not survive changes in administration. Others at least partially succeeded, only to be followed by still more reforms. The result is a landscape of hybrid budgets in which fragments of the latest budget reform are overlaid and integrated with the most useful parts of previous budget reforms.In 1994, the Florida legislature passed the Government Performance and Accountability Act (chapter 94-249, FS), requiring a statewide, phased-in conversion to a budgeting approach it called "performance-based program budgeting" (PB 2 ). Because Florida is one of only two states that apply budgetary incentives and disincentives for performance results (Melkers and Willoughby 1998), studying the state's experience should provide valuable insights. Judged against the prescriptions of rational budgeting theory, performance-based program budgeting would be given high marks as a good budget reform. PB 2 requires government spending to be classified by program; programs must have missions and objectives; and input, output, and

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“…The working hypotheses dealt with the broad subject areas -communication, quality of information received, resources available to implement, disposition to implement, bureaucratic structure and utilization of the measures. Table Working Hypotheses Scholarly Support WH1: Effective communication is evident in the performance measurement system Behn(2003), Caiden (2000), Grifel (1994), Grizzle & Pettijohn (2002). Kravchuck & Schack (1998), Long & Franklin (2004), Moore & Heneghan (1996), Wilson (2001) WH1a: Strategic plans are clearly communicated.…”

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confidence: 99%

Intermediate Theory: The Missing Link in Successful Student Scholarship

Shields¹,

Tajalli²

2006

Journal of Public Affairs Education

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Since 1998, the capstone papers of students at Texas State University have won the Pi Alpha Alpha masters student paper award five times 1 . The papers are so successful because students have mastered the art of building and using intermediate theory or conceptual frameworks. This paper introduces the notion of microconceptual frameworks and examines how students use them to connect all aspects of empirical inquiry (e.g., problem definition, purpose, literature review, methodology, data collection, and analysis). These conceptual frameworks act like a map that gives coherence to the enterprise. They are a critical "missing link" in successful student empirical research. Capstone ProjectOur MPA students learn about conceptual elements of empirical research as they prepare to write their Applied Research Project (ARP). The ARP is written in a twocourse sequence. The first class (POSI 5335 Problems in Research Methodology) 2 is a

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Public Service Professionalism for Performance Measurement and Evaluation

Cited by 40 publications

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Performance Budgeting in American States: A Framework of Integrating Performance with Budgeting

Performance Budgeting in American States: A Framework of Integrating Performance with Budgeting

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

Intermediate Theory: The Missing Link in Successful Student Scholarship

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