Budget Development in OMB: Aggregate Influences of the Problem and Information Environment

Abstract

Aaron Wildavsky4, and others, there are major differences between the details of the budgetary process at any level of government and the kind of governmental resource allocation decision making prescribed in the normative literature.Observations of real government officials indicate that they rely on a series of "aids to calcula-* Research described here has been supported by the National Science Foundation, SOC76-01052 and SOC72-05488.Data used in the work reported here was made available through the efforts of Mark S. Kamlet, David C. Mowery, Douglas B. Neal, John F. Padgett, Chandler Stolp and one of the authors.Their generous assistance was essential.The analysis reported here builds in substantial ways on ideas developed in the context of this larger project.We wish to thank Kamlet and Mary Kuiper for their helpful comments on an earlier draft and Stolp for his invaluable assistance.1 T.

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