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Budgeting, Auditing, and Evaluation Functions and Integration in Seven Governments
152 Pages
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Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
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Routledge
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The end of the twentieth century is shaping up as a period of volatile change and transition. As governments the world over work to sustain public policy and develop much needed policy initiatives, there is an increasing need for better budgetary management and sound evaluation of both past and prospective policies. Budgeting, Auditing, Evaluating presents in-depth, comparative examinations of... Read more
Foreword, Acknowledgment, 1. Perspectives on Budgeting, Auditing, and Evaluation: An Introduction, 2. The Separation of Powers and Political Choice: Budgeting, Auditing, and Evaluation in the United States, 3. Separate Developments: Budgeting, Auditing, and Evaluation in the United Kingdom, 4. Two-Track Processes: Budgeting, Auditing, and Evaluation in the Federal Republic of Germany, 5. Out of Sequence and Out of Sync: Budgeting, Auditing, and Evaluation in Canada, 6. Many Reforms, Little Learning: Budgeting, Auditing, and Evaluation in Spain, 7. Connected or Separated? Budgeting, Auditing, and Evaluation in Sweden, 8. Muddling Through, Too: Evaluative Auditing of Budgeting in Finland, 9. Horses to the Water: Budgeting, Auditing, and Evaluation in Seven Governments, Glossary, Contributors, Index
Biography
Andrew Gray and Bill Jenkins are respectively reader in public accountability and management and Reader in Public Policy and Management at the University of Kent at Canterbury, U.K. Their various publications include Administrative Politics in British Government., Bob Segsworth is associate professor of political science at Laurentian University, Canada and has published widely in Canadian Public Administrative, Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, and the International Review of Administrative Sciences., Ray C. Rist is a deputy director of the General Division at the U.S. General Accounting Office.
