Performance-Based Budgeting in the Public Sector

ISBN-13: 9783030020767 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 274 str.

Opis

This book provides a comparative analysis of performance budgeting and financing implementation, and examines failures and successes across both developed and developing countries. Beginning with a review of theoretical research on performance budgeting and financing, the book synthesises the numerous studies on the subject. The book describes the situation in the US, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Netherlands and Italy, as well as in seven developing countries - Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Russia and South Africa, at the national, and at the local level. Each chapter provides historical and descriptive details of successful or failed experiments in performance budgeting and performance financing.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Dilemmas in performance budgeting

Part 1:   Performance budgeting in developed world  

Chapter 2: Performance Based budgeting: The US Case

Chapter 3: Performance Monitoring in New South Wales Australia

Chapter 4: Performance Budgeting in the Netherlands

Chapter 5: Performance Budgeting in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Chapter 6: Public Sector Performance-Based Budgeting in Italy

Part 2:   Performance budgeting in transitional countries  

Chapter 7: Performance Budgeting in Local Government: A Case Study of eThekwini Municipality in South Africa

Chapter 8: Performance budgeting in Russia

Chapter 9: Performance-based Programme Budgeting in Ukraine (with a focus on the local budget level)

Chapter 10: Performance budgeting and performance financing in Slovakia

Chapter 11: The Development of Performance-based Budgeting in Slovenia

Part 3: Performance financing

Chapter 12: Performance-based financing of kindergartens : Bulgaria 

Chapter 13: Performance based funding of universities- Czech Republic and Slovakia

Chapter 14: Effectuating performance-based budgeting takes time

O autorze

Michiel S. de Vries is Chair in Public Administration at Radboud University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He is past president of IASIA, full member of the Group of Independent Experts on the European Charter of Local Self - Government of the Council of Europe, and member of the editorial board of numerous journals on public administration. His research concentrates on local government, policy evaluation, policy change and comparative public administration.

Juraj Nemec is Professor of Public Finance and Public Management at Masaryk University, Czech Republic. He is the President of the Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe (NISPAcee), Vice-President of the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration, and the project director of the IASIA permanent working group.

David Špaček is Associate Professor at the Department of Public Economics, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University. His primary research interests are in public administration and management, with a focus on performance management, quality management, strategic management, e-government/e-governance and human resources management.

Blurb

This book provides a comparative analysis of performance budgeting and financing implementation, and examines failures and successes across both developed and developing countries. Beginning with a review of theoretical research on performance budgeting and financing, the book synthesises the numerous studies on the subject. The book describes the situation in the US, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Netherlands and Italy, as well as in seven developing countries - Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Russia and South Africa, at the national, and at the local level. Each chapter provides historical and descriptive details of successful or failed experiments in performance budgeting and performance financing.

Michiel S. de Vries is Chair in Public Administration at Radboud University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He is past president of IASIA, full member of the Group of Independent Experts on the European Charter of Local Self - Government of the Council of Europe, and member of the editorial board of numerous journals on Public Administration. His research concentrates on local government, policy evaluation, policy change and comparative public administration.

Juraj Nemec is Professor of Public Finance and Public Management at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. He is the President of the Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe (NISPAcee), Vice-President of the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration, and the project director of the IASIA permanent working group.

David Špaček is Associate Professor at the Department of Public Economics, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University, Brno. His primary research interests are in public administration and management, with a focus on performance management, quality management, strategic management, e-government/e-governance and human resources management.