Comparative Public Budgeting

"All governments have budgets. Budgeting is a core state function. Effective budgeting empowers the state to prioritize policies, allocate resources, and discipline the bureaucracy. Proficient budgeting contributes to efficacious fiscal and macroeconomic policies. Budgeting and the state it serves can be transparent, participatory, and promote democratic decision making, or it can be opaque, hierarchical, and encourage authoritarian rule. Democratic budgetary institutions promote the rule of law, transparent decision making, a culture of bargaining and compromise, deliberation in the distribution of resources, civil society, and the accountability of public funds. Budgeting, as a central activity of public finance, has long been regarded as a foundational element in the history of state formation. The European Union (EU), created in response to the Second World War, currently consists of twenty-seven member states"--

Part of the Public Administration and Public Policy series, this text offers a comprehensive and comparative look at the practice of public budgeting and financial management - examining state-of-the-art developments, analysis and current data in this area of public administration.;The book's contributors present a comprehensive review of cross-national, state and local government budgeting and financial management - providing, all of the relevant information on this topic.

Every government engages in budgeting and public financial management to run the affairs of state. Effective budgeting empowers states to prioritize policies, allocate resources, and discipline bureaucracies, and it contributes to efficacious fiscal and macroeconomic policies. Budgeting can be transparent, participatory, and promote democratic decision-making, or it can be opaque, hierarchical, and encourage authoritarian rule. This book compares budgetary systems around the world by examining the economic, political, cultural, and institutional contexts in which they are formulated, adopted, and executed. The second edition has been updated with new data to offer a more expansive set of national case studies, with examples of budgeting in China, India, Indonesia, Iraq, and Nigeria. Chapters also discuss Brexit and the European Union's struggle to require balances budgets during the Euro Debt Crisis. Additionally, the authors provide a deeper analysis of developments in US budgetary policies from the Revolutionary War through the Trump presidency.

Comparative Public Budgeting and Finance is a collection of original chapters examining public budgeting issues, methods, and techniques in countries around the world. Each chapter explores the history of the budget system and how it fits within the political system in the country, as well as the legal foundation and any reforms that affect the budget system. A discussion of revenue and expenditure allocations is included in each section. Each chapter also examines topics such as: budget behavior and decision making, capital budgeting, analytical processes, budget processes, intergovernmental relations, budget reform, performance budgeting, and financial management. Each chapter concludes with a list of thought provoking questions, an appendix, end notes and a glossary which provides a point of departure for classroom discussion as well as individual student research on each country.

This book provides a comparative analysis of performance budgeting and financing implementation, and examines failures and successes across both developed and developing countries. Beginning with a review of theoretical research on performance budgeting and financing, the book synthesises the numerous studies on the subject. The book describes the situation in the US, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Netherlands and Italy, as well as in seven developing countries - Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Russia and South Africa, at the national, and at the local level. Each chapter provides historical and descriptive details of successful or failed experiments in performance budgeting and performance financing.

Public Sector Budgets provides an in-depth analysis of budget decision-making in a comparative setting, focusing on the experience of several countries including the US, Canada, Germany and the UK. Professor Ott seeks to uncover the interrelationships between budget outcomes and budget modality through a rigorous and insightful comparative analysis. Beginning with an up-to-date study of the US public sector, the political economy of budgeting at the federal level and the federal budget structure, the volume continues with an overview of issues and case studies of budgeting in two federal systems of government, Canada and Germany, and one unitary form of government, the UK. The final part of the volume deals with public sector deficits and the link between public sector capital formation and economic growth.

Public administration scholars and practitioners are increasingly concerned with the need to broaden the field's scope beyond particularistic accounts of administration in given countries. This title brings together seminal readings in comparative, development public administration and contemporary public management scholarship.

This incomparable Fourth Edition of a standard reference/text has been thoroughly updated and enlarged -- offering comprehensive coverage of the field in a single source and incorporating entirely new as well as time-tested material.