PROGRAM BUDGETING

Abstract

To date, none of the major attempts at implementing program budgeting in government have been fully completed. Even in the Department of Defense experience, which spans about seven years, there remains a significant gap between theory and practice. Bureaucratic inertia, training people to do useful analyses and just plain administrative complexity are continuing and difficult problems. One of the most frustrating problems is the paucity of program related data. There is also considerable uncertainty about the best way to implement a program budgeting system, which is underscored by the range of institutional approaches being taken. Both in theory and in practice, program budgeting is far from mature; there are yet many difficult problems of concept, implementation and administration to be resolved. Even in its present incomplete state, however, program budgeting offers significant potential for greater efficiency and economy in the allocation of resources.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1968
Accession Number
AD0670504

Entities

People

  • B. D. Bradley

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Budgets
  • Capital Investments
  • Corporations
  • Cost Benefit Analysis
  • Cost Effectiveness
  • Costs
  • Department Of Defense
  • Economics
  • Education
  • Federal Budgets
  • Governments
  • Health
  • Local Governments
  • National Governments
  • Public Health
  • Systems Analysis
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Education

Readers

  • Defense Financial Management and Audit.
  • Systems Analysis and Design