Balancing Control and Flexibility in Public Budgeting

A New Role for Rule Variability

Michael Di Francesco, John Alford (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

101 Seiten

2018 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-10-9137-7 (ISBN)

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This work explores how reshaping budget rules and how they are applied presents a preferred means of public sector budgeting, rather than simply implementing fewer rules. Through enhanced approaches to resource flexibility, government entities can ensure that public money is used appropriately while achieving the desired results. The authors identify public budgeting practices that inhibit responses to complex problems and examine how rule modification can lead to expanded budget flexibility. Through a nuanced understanding of the factors underlying conventional budget control, the authors use budget reforms in Australia to show the limits of rule modification and propose "rule variability" as a better means of recalibrating central control and situational flexibility. Here, policy makers and public management academics will find a source that surveys emerging ways of reconciling control and flexibility in the public sector.iv>

Michael Di Francesco is an Associate Professor and Case Program Director at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government, and the School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. He has held academic appointments at the Universities of Sydney and Melbourne, and Victoria University of Wellington, and expert advisory roles at the NSW Treasury, International Monetary Fund and World Bank. John Alford is Professor at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government and the Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne, Australia. He is an international authority in the areas of public value and client-organization relationships. His most recent Palgrave publication is (with Janine O’Flynn) Rethinking Public Service Delivery (2012), winner of the 2013 Academy of Management (Public/Non-Profit Division) Best Book Award.

1. Introduction.- 2. Non-routine problems and flexibility.- 3. Flexibility, inflexibility and budgeting.- 4. Budget rules and budget flexibility.- 5. Budget reform and rule modification.- 6. Calibrating budget flexibility and control: A new role for rule variability.- 7. Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	18.08.2018
Zusatzinfo	1 Illustrations, black and white; XV, 101 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Steuern / Steuerrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Rechnungswesen / Bilanzen
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
Schlagworte	budget reform • central finance agencies • Collaboration • Control • Devolution • earned autonomy • flexibility • non-routine problems • public budgeting • Public Management • Responsive Regulation • Rules • sanctioned rule-breaking
ISBN-10	981-10-9137-4 / 9811091374
ISBN-13	978-981-10-9137-7 / 9789811091377
Zustand	Neuware