In the spirit of New Public Management (NPM), performance-based budgeting (PBB) has (re-
) attracted the interest of both academics and practitioners. A wide variety of approaches and …

This article examines the decades‐long practices of performance budgeting in different
countries and their associated challenges from a multilayered institutional framework. Based …

A main rationale of performance information is to empower citizens to make informed
decisions by presenting them with unambiguous information about the performance of …

The Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993 and the George W. Bush
administration's Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) established new routines that …

Performance information has been argued to assist politicians in decision making on
budgeting and reform, but research on how political decision makers respond to …

Abstract The Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993 provided a well‐
studied framework for US federal performance management initiatives. In the aftermath of …

Toward Next-Generation Performance Budgeting: Lessons from the Experiences of Seven
Reforming Countries analyzes the difficulties that national governments have had in linking …

IMPACT This article helps policy-makers and managers understand why politicians tend to
make only limited instrumental use of performance information in the budget process. In …

The administration of President Barack Obama, like those of his immediate predecessors, is
focused on trying to improve the quality of, and use of, performance data. The federal …

While there is a developing consensus that governments need to address systemic racism,
public administration scholarship has not played a large role in supporting policymakers …