Public entrepreneurs in the policy process: performance-based budgeting reform in florida

Abstract

How do entrepreneurs in the public sector effect major policy changes? Are the same entrepreneurs likely to be involved from the idea initiation stage through design, adoption, implementation and institutionalnation, or are there different prominent entrepreneurs in each of the policy stages? What does the pattern of entrepreneurial participation mean for the success of the policy? Utilizing a case study of Performance-Based Program Budgeting (PB2 ) in the State of Florida, this paper employs the observations of key Florida policymakers and advocates to describe the strategic and purposive actions of public entrepreneurs in the four stages of the PB2 budget reform policy process. The work supports current research that major policy changes, such as the adoption of PB2 in Florida, require purposive and strategic actions from public entrepreneurs for their fruition. The paper also contributes to the growing implementation and budgeting literature that describes and assesses performance-based budgeting in the states, and provides observations on necessary conditions for institutionalizing PB2 in Florida.

Citation

Berry, F.S. and Flowers, G. (1999), "Public entrepreneurs in the policy process: performance-based budgeting reform in florida", Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management, Vol. 11 No. 4, pp. 578-617. https://doi.org/10.1108/JPBAFM-11-04-1999-B005