Abstract
Goal achievement by federal agencies may cause the agencies to become less responsive to their environment becuase of bureaucratization of the agency, previous budgetary commitments, and even complacency. This paper examines how the budgets of federal agencies respond to goal achievement, previous budgetary commitments, and changes in the social environment surrounding the agencies. Data for seven agencies over a twenty year period are examined. Goal achievement and previous commitments are both likely to reduce subsequent changes in agency budgets. Changes in the social environments surrounding the agencies are likely to increase changes in the agency budgets. The effects are interactive with contextual variables such as war unemployment and some agency characteristics. Conclusions are reached how federal agencies may be made more (or less) responsive to their goal achievements and to their social environments.
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