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Public Money & Management, 1989
Devolved management has been the recommended solution to many of the problems of centralised public bureaucracies, but what does it mean in practice? In particular, how much control should be retained at the centre and how much allocated to service managers?
Paul Hoggett, Glen Bramley
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Devolved management has been the recommended solution to many of the problems of centralised public bureaucracies, but what does it mean in practice? In particular, how much control should be retained at the centre and how much allocated to service managers?
Paul Hoggett, Glen Bramley
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Productivity Trends in Local Government Budgeting
Public Performance & Management Review, 2002This article follows up on the authors’ 1988 rejoinder to the symposium “Budgeting for Improved Productivity,” which appeared in the spring 1987 issue of Public Productivity Review. Using data from a national survey of local government budget practitioners conducted in 1996, 10 years after the first article’s survey, the authors investigate trends in ...
Daniel E. O’Toole, Brian Stipak
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Preparation of the Local Budget
American Political Science Review, 1946The old saws, “money makes the mare go” and “he who pays the piper calls the tune,” make for awareness of the central importance of budgeting in government. While these expressions indicate the possibility of a measure of general understanding of public budgeting, they also are indicative of the ease with which superficiality and misconceptions may ...
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Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy. Public Money, 1981
Local authorities in England and Wales drew up their budgets this year in a uniquely difficult situation. They had behind them a tough rate support grant settlement and Government plans for further cuts: ahead, the prospect of further grant penalties, or worse, if the overall budgets were not on target . . . How did they react?
Anthony Harrison, Graeme Lee
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Local authorities in England and Wales drew up their budgets this year in a uniquely difficult situation. They had behind them a tough rate support grant settlement and Government plans for further cuts: ahead, the prospect of further grant penalties, or worse, if the overall budgets were not on target . . . How did they react?
Anthony Harrison, Graeme Lee
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WORLD OF FINANCE
Introduction. In the first year of the war, despite the growing need for spending, local budgets were completed with a surplus. It is important to investigate the reasons for the surplus of local budgets in wartime conditions. The purpose of the article is to analyze local budget expenditures in the context of ensuring the financial stability of local
Liliya BENOVSKA, Ruslan KARVATSKYI
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Introduction. In the first year of the war, despite the growing need for spending, local budgets were completed with a surplus. It is important to investigate the reasons for the surplus of local budgets in wartime conditions. The purpose of the article is to analyze local budget expenditures in the context of ensuring the financial stability of local
Liliya BENOVSKA, Ruslan KARVATSKYI
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Democratic Functions of Local Budgets
2021This chapter reflects upon the interesting, but underdeveloped question of the democratic functions of local budgets with respect to local citizenship. We examine democratic decision-making through the lens of the budgetary process. The budget can be seen as a financial representation of the most important local decisions. Economic efficiency, in turn,
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This publication, Local Budgeting, provides a comprehensive guide for local administrators who are involved in designing and implementing budgetary institutions and who wish to improve efficiency and equity in service delivery and to strengthen internal and external accountability. It details principles and practices to improve fiscal management.
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The Annals of the "Stefan cel Mare" University of Suceava. Fascicle of The Faculty of Economics and Public Administration, 2010
The local budget represents an important planning and management instrument of the financial activity at the level of administrative-territorial units, an instrument that supports and puts into practice sustainable development policies at local level.
Cornel Constantin LAZAR, Mirela LAZAR
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The local budget represents an important planning and management instrument of the financial activity at the level of administrative-territorial units, an instrument that supports and puts into practice sustainable development policies at local level.
Cornel Constantin LAZAR, Mirela LAZAR
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Local Budgeting and Public Participation
State and Local Government Review, 2011This paper examines the political, economic, and institutional variables associated with the presence of state laws that mandate the use of public input in local budgeting. The results show that political and institutional variables can help explain the presence of such laws, but the relationships between variables of interest shift depending on ...
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Local Budget Fulfillment in 1994
Chinese Economic Studies, 1996The first year that the new fiscal system was implemented throughout China was 1994. The financial departments at all levels of government conscientiously carried out the central policy "grasping opportunities, intensifying reform, expanding openness, accelerating development, and maintaining stability," and worked hard to ensure the smooth operation ...
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