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CHAPTER ELEVEN: Budgeting

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The web is full of the new initiatives in the area of program implementation. For New York City's Compstat program, see http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/chfdept/compstat-process.html. Information about Baltimore's CitiStat program can be found at http://www.ci.baltimore.md.us/news/citistat/index.html.

For case studies on implementation problems, see the report of the study committee that investigated the Columbia space shuttle accident, http://www.nasa.gov/columbia/home/index.html; the special report on emergency response in New York on the morning of September 11, 2001, http://www.nyc.gov/html/fdny/html/mck_report/index.shtml; and the report of the Arlington County September 11 response at the Pentagon, http://www.arlingtonva.us/departments/fire/edu/about/fireeduaboutafterreport.aspx.

For a fascinating look at one official's views on implementation, see Donald Rumsfeld's "rules" at http://www.analects-ink.com/weekend/020308.html.