Incremental Changes or Punctuations?

Cavalieri, Alice

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“…Many studies on public budgeting have employed PET to examine and explain the occurrence of budget punctuations across diverse circumstances. For example, studies have investigated budgetary changes in democratic and highly centralized political systems across four distinct countries (Baumgartner et al, 2017), examined Nepalese budget punctuation patterns under various political changes and economic challenges (Guragain & Lim, 2019), analyzed Macao’s budgetary punctuation patterns before and after its transition to Chinese control (Li et al, 2022), discussed how the Eurozone crisis and the pandemic acted as triggers for Italian budget punctuation (Cavalieri, 2023), and extended the PET literature to explore the impacts of political and institutional changes on the directions and frequencies of budget punctuation (Myaing & Lim, 2023). This study also uses PET to examine how the different patterns of budget changes affected public service performance before and after Myanmar’s budget reform.…”

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Myanmar Budget Dynamics and Their Effect on Multiple Performances of Public Service Delivery: A Multilevel Approach

Myaing,

Lim

2024

Sage Open

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A public budget consists of financial input for implementing governmental operations. It is generally expected that financial resources will increase organizational performance because they can be used to obtain other types of resources. This study aims to make a theoretical contribution to the punctuated equilibrium theory literature by examining how the different patterns of budget changes affected the competing dimensions of public service performance (3Es: efficiency, effectiveness, and equity) before and after the Myanmar budget reform in 2011. We collected a two-level dataset including budget allocation data at the ministry level and public service providers’ perceptions of performance at the individual level and employed multilevel modeling. Our results show that the effectiveness of public services can be improved by increasing a significant amount of budget allocation (positive punctuations), but this has no effect on efficiency or equity. However, any level of budget reduction can decrease the efficiency and equity of public services.

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