What do we talk about when we talk about performance? Dialogue theory and performance budgeting.(PART SYMPOSIUM)

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, April, 2006 by Moynihan, Donald P.

INTRODUCTION: THE RETURN OF PERFORMANCE BUDGETING

The President's Management Agenda (PMA) of 2001 heralded the most recent effort to introduce performance budgeting to the federal government, based on the seemingly indisputable premise that "everyone agrees that scarce federal resources should be allocated to programs ... that deliver results" (Office of Management and Budget [OMB] 2001, 27). The PMA called for the integration of financial and performance information by increasing the quality and range of data available to decision makers, assuming that greater technical and allocative efficiency would result (OMB 2001, 21).

These basic propositions are shared with the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993 and other previous efforts to...

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