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Governments all over the world are consistently outpaced by digital
change, and are falling behind. Digital government is a better
performing government. It is better at providing services people
and businesses need. Receiving benefits, accessing health records,
registering companies, applying for licences, voting - all of this
can be done online or through digital self-service. Digital
technology makes government more efficient, reduces hassle, and
lowers costs. But what will it take to make governments digital?
Good governance will take nothing short of a metamorphosis of the
public sector. With contributions from industry, academic, and
government experts - including Hillary Hartley, chief digital
officer for Ontario, and Salim Ismail, founder of Singularity
University - Government Digital lays down a blueprint for this
radical change.
The study of public financial management is essential to improving
the practice of public management and to our understanding of the
politics and organization of public institutions. As a study of the
practice of public management, the literature of public financial
management closely scrutinizes developing trends and standards in
various areas of expertise, such as budgeting, accounting, and
taxation. As a study of politics and organization of public
institutions, the literature of public financial management
examines the salience of financial resources and their management
in the allocation and use of political authority. This four-volume
set aims to address the sophistication and breadth of issues in
this fast-developing area of study, bringing together seminal works
on both practice-centric research and research that speaks to
broader public management concerns. Above all this major work
represents an invaluable resource which can be used to educate
readers toward the practice and institutional affects of public
financial management.
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