Political and legal model of goal-setting in the state administration of the United States of America
This article describes the political and legal mechanisms of formalization of target settings in the US government. The author of this article notes that at the turn of the XX century - the beginning of the XXI century, the US political leadership faced the problem of low efficiency of spending budget allocations. The response to this call from the American establishment was the adoption of the Government Performance and Results Act in 1993. As a theoretical basis for describing the features of the implementation of the Law on the Assessment and Results of Government Activities, the author uses the concept of "goal-setting model", which is understood as a political and legal mechanism for developing long-term, medium-term, short-term and current political decisions, including the following parameters: goal-setting documents; subjects involved in the development of goal-setting documents and their functions; the procedure for developing goal-setting documents; the validity period of goal-setting documents; characteristics of the target settings and the target-setting methods used. In conclusion, the author formulates the features of the goal-setting model in the US government, which can be used in the domestic practice of public administration in the development of the strategic planning system.