Linking budgeting to results? Evidence about performance budgets in European municipalities based on a comparative analytical model

Public Management Review

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 932-953

  Bleyen, Pieter ^a   Klimovský, Daniel ^b   Bouckaert, Geert ^a   Reichard, Christoph ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Local government; performance budgeting; performance information

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992176664     PISSN: 14719037     EISSN: 14719045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2016.1243837     Document Type: Article

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