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Exploring Explanations of State Agency Budgets: Institutional Budget Actors or Exogenous Environment?
Author(s) -
RYU JAY EUNGHA,
BOWLING CYNTHIA J.,
CHO CHUNGLAE,
WRIGHT DEIL S.
Publication year - 2008
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/j.1540-5850.2008.00909.x
Subject(s) - incrementalism , legislature , agency (philosophy) , state (computer science) , principal (computer security) , economics , interdependence , business , public economics , public administration , political science , politics , sociology , social science , algorithm , computer science , law , operating system
Budgetary incrementalism argues that three institutional actors—agencies, executive budget offices, and legislative committees—dominate budget outcomes. The complexity and interdependency of public programs expands this expectation to include the influence of exogenous budget factors. Findings from a survey of state agency heads reveal that budget environments do influence state agency budget outcomes. However, the institutional budgetary participants, especially governors and legislatures, envisioned in classical incrementalism retain their principal and primary influence on state agency budgets. A significant departure from classical incrementalism is that agencies are not as influential as previously depicted.