1 Charting Performance Budgeting Laws in the States: Successful or Just Hype? by Yi Lu Assistant Professor Department of Public Administration College of Community and Public Affairs Binghamton University Post Office Box 6000 Binghamton, New York 13902 607-777-9184 ylu@binghamton.edu Katherine Willoughby Professor Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies Andrew Young School of Policy Studies Georgia State University P.O. Box 3992 Atlanta, Georgia 30302 404-413-0117 kwilloughby@gsu.edu Yi Lu, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, College of Community and Public Affairs, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York 13902. Her research interests are performance management and budgeting. She can be reached at ylu@binghamton.edu. Katherine G. Willoughby, Professor, Department of Public Management and Policy, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia. Her research interests include state and local government budgetary and fiscal management, performance management and budgeting. She can be reached at kwilloughby@gsu.edu. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management in Chicago, Illinois, October 2008.