The road to entrepreneurial budgeting and beyond: a reconceptualization of the development of budget innovations in the United States

Robert L. Bland, Michael R. Overton and Valencia Prentice

Chapter 7 in Research Handbook on Public Financial Management, 2023, pp 117-135 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: In his seminal work on “The Road to PPB: The Stages of Budget Reform,” Allen Schick (1966) provided an interpretive assessment of the progression of theories in public budgeting. He identified the changing needs of policy makers as the key driver in the progression of theories and the ensuing innovations. This chapter resynthesizes the progression of innovations in public budgeting over the past century by setting them in the context of three underlying purposes: (1) providing a rationale for allocation decisions, (2) a quest for productivity improvement in the delivery of public services, and (3) adapting budget deliberations and decisions to the expectations of the public and their elected representatives. Reexamining the evolution of budget innovations through these three lenses provides a better understanding of why innovations emerged when they did, how they contributed to legitimizing the role of government in society, and the innovations in the budget process that we can anticipate in the near future.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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