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Public Budgeting in Search for an Identity: State of the Art and
Future Challenges provides a state-of-the-art reflection on current
trends in international public budgeting, representing an important
pillar in the accumulation of knowledge on public sector budgeting
processes, contents, evolutions and critical issues. Budgeting is
central in public sector organizations. It performs a complex
variety of functions, being the arena where multiple actors,
cultures and professional identities interact, making it an
extremely fascinating field and topic of investigation. There is a
significant need and scope for exploring budgeting processes in the
public sector today, as a consequence of the managerial waves of
reforms that have taken place over the last few decades and the
implementation of austerity programmes – as well as in light of
current trends, including emerging challenges related to community
care and wellbeing, rising inequality, people flows, climate
change, pandemics, and the persistence of democratic deficits. The
chapters in this volume address critical issues on this broad
topic, offering new perspectives on current evolutions in public
budgeting, including, among others, participatory budgeting,
performance budgeting, the budgetary slack resources and the need
to ensure balance between budget control and flexibility. These
contributions show that public budgeting can, and must remain, the
subject of enduring interest in our studies. The chapters in this
book were originally published as a special issue of Public
Management Review.
This book considers how the practical and public policy relevance
of research might be increased, and academics and practitioners can
better engage to define research agendas and deliver findings
relevant to accounting and accountability in the public services.
To do so, an international comparative analysis of the
research-practice gap in public sector accounting has been
undertaken. This involved academic perspectives from over twenty
countries, and practitioner perspectives from leading international
professional accounting bodies actively involved in the public
services arena. It was found that research is valued for informing
practice, but engaging at a high level of policy engagement has
been primarily by a small group of experienced researchers. For
other researchers the impact accomplished may not always be valued
highly in the academic community relative to other, more scholarly,
activities. The book therefore looks at how engagement and impact
between academics and practitioners can be increased.
This volume provides a unique insight into the ways local
governments have maintained financial resilience in the face of the
significant challenges posed by the era of austerity. Taking an
international perspective, it provides an enlightening and
practical analysis of the different capacities and responses that
local governments deploy to cope with financial shocks.Moving
beyond traditional approaches dealing with financial stress, the
financial resilience perspective reveals a wider range of
organisational responses and enables consideration of the dynamic
role played by internal and external contextual factors. The
international case study approach allows for a comparative analysis
of financial resilience in the context of different administrative
and policy environments. By providing a unifying view of financial
resilience, the importance of building resilience into
organisational financial management is demonstrated, uncovering the
relative effectiveness of different resilience building approaches.
This edited volume is a valuable source for practitioners and
academics, as well as students of public policy, public management
and financial management.
Public Budgeting in Search for an Identity: State of the Art and
Future Challenges provides a state-of-the-art reflection on current
trends in international public budgeting, representing an important
pillar in the accumulation of knowledge on public sector budgeting
processes, contents, evolutions and critical issues. Budgeting is
central in public sector organizations. It performs a complex
variety of functions, being the arena where multiple actors,
cultures and professional identities interact, making it an
extremely fascinating field and topic of investigation. There is a
significant need and scope for exploring budgeting processes in the
public sector today, as a consequence of the managerial waves of
reforms that have taken place over the last few decades and the
implementation of austerity programmes - as well as in light of
current trends, including emerging challenges related to community
care and wellbeing, rising inequality, people flows, climate
change, pandemics, and the persistence of democratic deficits. The
chapters in this volume address critical issues on this broad
topic, offering new perspectives on current evolutions in public
budgeting, including, among others, participatory budgeting,
performance budgeting, the budgetary slack resources and the need
to ensure balance between budget control and flexibility. These
contributions show that public budgeting can, and must remain, the
subject of enduring interest in our studies. The chapters in this
book were originally published as a special issue of Public
Management Review.
This volume provides a unique insight into the ways local
governments have maintained financial resilience in the face of the
significant challenges posed by the era of austerity. Taking an
international perspective, it provides an enlightening and
practical analysis of the different capacities and responses that
local governments deploy to cope with financial shocks.Moving
beyond traditional approaches dealing with financial stress, the
financial resilience perspective reveals a wider range of
organisational responses and enables consideration of the dynamic
role played by internal and external contextual factors. The
international case study approach allows for a comparative analysis
of financial resilience in the context of different administrative
and policy environments. By providing a unifying view of financial
resilience, the importance of building resilience into
organisational financial management is demonstrated, uncovering the
relative effectiveness of different resilience building approaches.
This edited volume is a valuable source for practitioners and
academics, as well as students of public policy, public management
and financial management.
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