Program Budgeting and the Performance Movement Dorothea Anagnostopoulos What happened

What happened

are transitory

and an outstanding reference for students in the mental health professions

and researchers with interests in international relations

Program Budgeting and the Performance Movement Dorothea Anagnostopoulos What happenedFormal systems of comprehensive planning and performance based management have a long if disappointing history in American government. This is illustrated most dramatically by the failure of program budgeting (PPB) in the 1960s and resurrection of that management technique in a handful of agencies over the past decade. Beyond its present application, the significance of PPB lies in its relationship to the goals and assumptions of popular reforms