Balancing Control and Flexibility in Public Budgeting (repost)
Balancing Control and Flexibility in Public Budgeting: A New Role for Rule Variability
2016 | ISBN-10: 9811003408 | 101 pages | pdf | 1.62 mb
Authors: Di Francesco, Michael, Alford, John
Focuses on a "blind spot" in budgeting literature, analyzing how the rigidity of budget processes in the public sector inhibit the collaboration and agility needed in responding to complex non-routine problems
Illuminates contending understandings of the nature of budget control and offers practical recommendations to policy makers on how to reconfigure centralized budget control for greater flexibility
Offers a number of genuinely novel contributions to analyzing public management structures and practices, such as a taxonomy of budget control properties that unpacks the mechanisms inhibiting flexibility as well as an application of responsive regulatory approaches to budget control