Strategy, Priority-Setting, and Municipal Capital Budget Reform

Download or read book Strategy, Priority-Setting, and Municipal Capital Budget Reform written by Justin Marlowe and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I examine three cases where local governments, encouraged by the fiscal austerity of the Great Recession, changed how they identified and selected capital projects. The central question is whether these changes institutionalized a more “strategic" outlook in the capital improvement planning and budgeting processes for these jurisdictions? The findings suggest that local governments can set capital priorities strategically, but that the process of implementing those reforms must be informal and flexible to changing political circumstances. These findings add to the limited literature on the political, administrative, and other challenges that local governments confront when implementing major reforms to the capital improvement planning and budgeting processes.