Background

Glen Hahn Cope, “Local Government Budgeting and Productivity: Friends or Foes?” Public Productivity Review 10, no. 3 (1987): 45(57. Ibid., 55. Evan Berman and XiaoHu Wang, “Performance Measurement in U.S. Counties: Capacity for Reform,” Public Administration Review 60, no. 5 (2000): 409(420. ................
................