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Performance Budgeting for State and Local Government

By Janet M. Kelly and William C. Rivenbark (M.E. Sharpe, Inc., July 2003)

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This text describes performance budgeting as the integration of the components of performance management--planning, performance measurement, benchmarking, and evaluation--into the framework of state and local government budgeting. The authors present performance budgeting not as a stand-alone budgeting technique, but as an extension of the traditional budget process that reconciles financial and operational accountability.

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