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NOAA's Resurrection of Program Budgeting: Déjà Vu All Over Again?
Author(s) -
West William F.,
Lindquist Eric,
MosherHowe Katri.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
public administration review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.721
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1540-6210
pISSN - 0033-3352
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2009.01990.x
Subject(s) - bureaucracy , agency (philosophy) , abandonment (legal) , business , public administration , administration (probate law) , operations management , political science , operations research , economics , sociology , engineering , law , social science , politics
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration instituted a Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution System (PPBES) in 2002. As supplemented by matrix management, PPBES was appealing as an effort to rationalize the performance of an agency with an especially high degree of functional overlap among its component parts. Although PPBES has had some salutary effects, the agency's experience to date consistent with accounts of the difficulties that led to the abandonment of program budgeting by the civilian bureaucracy almost 40 years ago. As such, it speaks to the limits of performance assessment as a means of reallocating resources and responsibilities across organizational boundaries.