Implementing the GPRA: Examining the Prospects for Performance Budgeting in the Federal Government
Abstract
The Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) is the latest in a series
of attempts to introduce performance-based management and budgeting
techniques at the federal level in the United States. In the past, these attempts
largely failed due to administrative complexities, lack of investment in
managerial, accounting, and information systems, and the absence of
institutional incentives to promote gains in economic efficiency. Whereas we
find the objectives of the GPRA laudable, we question whether this current
incarnation of performance budgeting can succeed in transforming the
traditional focus of federal budgeting from annual appropriations and
obligations to multiyear outputs and outcomes.
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