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US Federal Budgets and Federal Employee Job Satisfaction

Nathan Favero et al.

Public Budgeting & Finance2026https://doi.org/10.1111/pbaf.70015article
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Abstract Researchers have long studied how organizational budgets relate to performance, but how do employees themselves experience the effects of budgetary decisions? Given widespread attention to political dysfunction in US federal budgeting, conventional wisdom holds that employees are negatively affected by budgetary uncertainty (volatility, delays, and stop‐gap measures). We test how budget size and uncertainty are associated with US federal employee attitudes using survey and archival data from 2005 to 2020. Results provide some evidence that employee job satisfaction improves with enhanced funds, but there is little to no support for the notion that budgetary uncertainty influences federal employees' job satisfaction.

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@article{nathan2026,
  title        = {{US Federal Budgets and Federal Employee Job Satisfaction}},
  author       = {Nathan Favero et al.},
  journal      = {Public Budgeting & Finance},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/pbaf.70015},
}

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0.50

Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40

F · citation impact0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20
M · momentum0.50 × 0.15 = 0.07
V · venue signal0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03
R · text relevance †0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20

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