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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>
This book presents a theory of the self whose core principle is
that the consciousness of the self is a process of
self-representing that runs throughout our life. This process aims
primarily at defending the self-conscious subject against the
threat of its metaphysical inconsistence. In other words, the self
is essentially a repertoire of psychological manoeuvres whose
outcome is self-representation aimed at coping with the fundamental
fragility of the human subject. This picture of the self differs
from both the idealist and the eliminative approaches widely
represented in contemporary discussion. Against the idealist
approach, this book contends that rather than the self being
primitive and logically prior, it is the result of a process of
construction that originates in subpersonal unconscious processes.
On the other hand, it also rejects the anti-realistic, eliminative
argument that, from the non-primary, derivative nature of the self,
infers its status as an illusory by-product of real neurobiological
events, devoid of any explanatory role.
This book presents a theory of the self whose core principle is
that the consciousness of the self is a process of
self-representing that runs throughout our life. This process aims
primarily at defending the self-conscious subject against the
threat of its metaphysical inconsistence. In other words, the self
is essentially a repertoire of psychological manoeuvres whose
outcome is self-representation aimed at coping with the fundamental
fragility of the human subject. This picture of the self differs
from both the idealist and the eliminative approaches widely
represented in contemporary discussion. Against the idealist
approach, this book contends that rather than the self being
primitive and logically prior, it is the result of a process of
construction that originates in subpersonal unconscious processes.
On the other hand, it also rejects the anti-realistic, eliminative
argument that, from the non-primary, derivative nature of the self,
infers its status as an illusory by-product of real neurobiological
events, devoid of any explanatory role.
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>
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