We’re doing reasonably fine, thanks. Why not evaluate what we’re doing? : what evaluation tells us about the state of performance budgeting in Switzerland

Rauskala, Iris Eliisa; Fuhrimann, Sandra

Publication type:	Conference paper
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Title:	We’re doing reasonably fine, thanks. Why not evaluate what we’re doing? : what evaluation tells us about the state of performance budgeting in Switzerland
Authors:	Rauskala, Iris Eliisa Fuhrimann, Sandra
Conference details:	34th EGPA Annual Conference, Bergen, Norway, 5-8 September 2012
Issue Date:	2012
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	European Group for Public Administration EGPA
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	Bergen
Language:	English
Subject (DDC):	350: Public administration
Abstract:	From an international perspective, there is an ever increasing interest in performance budgeting as documented by the latest OECD study (2007). The best-known, earlier approaches to performance budgets, like the Planning-Programming-Budgeting system (PPBS) in the 1960s, Management by objectives (MBO) and Zero-based budgeting (ZBB) in the 1970s are said to have failed or were unpractical for the one or the other reason, leading Schick (2007) to his famous saying: “Performance budgeting is easy to explain but has been hard to implement.” In his often-quoted 1998 article (Schick 1998), he writes on the necessity of sequencing financial management reforms in order to be able to achieve a status like New Zealand, which has been known for its stringent model of the results-oriented, contractual state, based on easier-to-measure outputs and not outcomes in the beginning, however.
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/14814
Fulltext version:	Published version
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Departement:	School of Management and Law
Organisational Unit:	Institute of Public Management (IVM)
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Rauskala, I. E., & Fuhrimann, S. (2012). We’re doing reasonably fine, thanks. Why not evaluate what we’re doing? : what evaluation tells us about the state of performance budgeting in Switzerland. 34th EGPA Annual Conference, Bergen, Norway, 5-8 September 2012.

Rauskala, I.E. and Fuhrimann, S. (2012) ‘We’re doing reasonably fine, thanks. Why not evaluate what we’re doing? : what evaluation tells us about the state of performance budgeting in Switzerland’, in 34th EGPA Annual Conference, Bergen, Norway, 5-8 September 2012. Bergen: European Group for Public Administration EGPA.

I. E. Rauskala and S. Fuhrimann, “We’re doing reasonably fine, thanks. Why not evaluate what we’re doing? : what evaluation tells us about the state of performance budgeting in Switzerland,” in 34th EGPA Annual Conference, Bergen, Norway, 5-8 September 2012, 2012.

RAUSKALA, Iris Eliisa und Sandra FUHRIMANN, 2012. We’re doing reasonably fine, thanks. Why not evaluate what we’re doing? : what evaluation tells us about the state of performance budgeting in Switzerland. In: 34th EGPA Annual Conference, Bergen, Norway, 5-8 September 2012. Conference paper. Bergen: European Group for Public Administration EGPA. 2012

Rauskala, Iris Eliisa, and Sandra Fuhrimann. 2012. “We’re Doing Reasonably Fine, Thanks. Why Not Evaluate What We’re Doing? : What Evaluation Tells Us About the State of Performance Budgeting in Switzerland.” Conference paper. In 34th EGPA Annual Conference, Bergen, Norway, 5-8 September 2012. Bergen: European Group for Public Administration EGPA.

Rauskala, Iris Eliisa, and Sandra Fuhrimann. “We’re Doing Reasonably Fine, Thanks. Why Not Evaluate What We’re Doing? : What Evaluation Tells Us About the State of Performance Budgeting in Switzerland.” 34th EGPA Annual Conference, Bergen, Norway, 5-8 September 2012, European Group for Public Administration EGPA, 2012.