DOES PERFORMANCE MATTER? A STUDY OF STATE BUDGETING |
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| Authors: | Michael Connelly Gary L Tompkins |
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| Institution: | An assistant professor of political science at South- western Oklahoma State University. Previously he worked as a plan- ner/analyst in the Missouri Division of Budget and Planning, evaluating the plans and budget requests of the state colleges and universities. As a member of his local school board, he is currently researching the difficulties of problem definition in education reform policy.;an associate professor of political science at Southwestern Oklahoma State University. His path analytic model of influences on state social welfare expenditures has been frequently used in policy texts to illustrate the use of the technique in policy research. |
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| Abstract: | This study examines the relationship between measures of expenditures and personnel on executive decision making on the budget in Missouri, FY 1979–1985. Specifically, it focuses on the interaction of "macro" and "micro" variables in the governor's budget recommendations, as demonstrated by revealing the conditions under which correlations between expenditures and personnel recommendations are weak and strong. The results indicate that attention to dollars is not enough to explain state policy decisions and that strong correlations are not automatic between the measures, which are influenced by internal as well as external constraints. |
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