Performance Measurement in the United States

Performance Measurement in the Federal Budget Process

Meaning of Performance Measurement in the congressional and executive budget processes (GAO source): The ongoing monitoring and reporting of program accomplishments, particularly progress toward preestablished goals. It is typically conducted by program or agency management.

Performance measures may address the type or level of program activities conducted (process), the direct products and services delivered by a program (outputs), or the results of those products and services (outcomes).

A program may be any activity, project, function, or policy that has an identifiable purpose or set of objectives. (See also Performance Budgeting; Government Performance and Results Act.)

Resources

See Also

• Federal Appropriations
• Entries about the United States Budget Process in the Encyclopedia (including Performance Measurement)
• Public Debt

Further Reading

• Legislatures and the budget process: the myth of fiscal control

  (J Wehner, 2010)

• Reconcilable Differences?: Congress, the Budget Process, and the Deficit (JB Gilmour, 1990)
• Fiscal institutions and fiscal performance

  (JM Poterba, J von Hagen, 2008)