Budgeting, Auditing, and Evaluation: Functions and Integration in Seven Governments - Hardcover

Gray, Andrew; Jenkins, Bill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1560000716 ISBN 13: 9781560000716

Publisher: Transaction Pub, 1992

Synopsis

The end of the twentieth century is shaping up as a period of volatile change and transition. As governments the world over work to sustain public policy and develop much needed policy initiatives, there is an increasing need for better budgetary management and sound evaluation of both past and prospective policies. Budgeting, Auditing, and Evaluation presents in-depth, comparative examinations of budgetary processes in seven major Western governments.
The contributors focus specifically on the important links between budgeting, auditing, and policy evaluation. These are examined as elements of an interactive process that plays a major role in government decision making. Although the three elements are institutionally and functionally distinct, auditing and evaluation generate information that has a measurable impact on government programs and their management. As each chapter demonstrates, national experiences show considerable variation in the development and linkage of budgeting, auditing, and evaluation. The authors identify both commonalities and divergences and make comparative statements of the consequences of these for the policy process.

About this title

About the Author

Bob Segsworth is associate professor of political science at Laurentian University, Canada and has published widely in Canadian Public Administration, Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, and the International Review of Administrative Sciences.

Edition details

• Publisher: Transaction Pub
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1560000716
• ISBN 13: 9781560000716
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 214
• Editor: Segsworth Bob