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Performance Funding in Federal Agencies: A Case Study of a Federal Job Training Program
Author(s) -
Courty Pascal,
Marschke Gerald
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
public budgeting and finance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.694
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1540-5850
pISSN - 0275-1100
DOI - 10.1111/1540-5850.2303002
Subject(s) - discretion , training (meteorology) , scheme (mathematics) , state (computer science) , business , federal state , public administration , computer science , political science , law , algorithm , mathematical analysis , physics , mathematics , meteorology
Our case study highlights important details that enter into developing performance contingent budgeting schemes—details that do not emerge in more general discussions of the subject—and shows how the handling of these details can be crucial to these schemes' success. We study a federal job training program that gives state and local decision makers discretion over the program's operation, but through performance funding holds them accountable for achieving specific objectives. We find that states' modifications to the scheme's construction produced over time highly individualized performance funding schemes that likely varied in their effectiveness.