International Public Financial Management Reform

Progress, Contradictions, and Challenges

James Guthrie, Christopher Humphrey, Lawrence R. Jones, James Guthrie, Christopher Humphrey, Lawrence R. Jones, Olov Olson

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Year: 2005
• Print ISBN:
  9781593113445
  9781593113452
• eBook ISBN:
  9781607527718
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Public Health, Administration & Care
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book is intended to give readers detailed information and perspectives on the reform of financial management reform practices in a variety of national settings around the world. The chapters explore the reform agenda in each nation and factors that stimulated change. Each chapter addresses the extent of the influence of "New Public Management" concepts and practices on reform implementation. The nations whose experience is represented in this book are among the most often cited examples of progressive change to be examined and perhaps emulated by governments in other nations. In the introductory chapter the editors address the question whether and to what extent the financial management reforms detailed in the book reveal real progress or a progression of questions and dilemmas faced but not solved over the past several decades.

Table of contents

• Cover
• International Public Financial Management Reform: Progress, Contradictions, and Challenges
• International Public Financial Management Reform: Progress, Contradictions, and Challenges
• Copyright
• Dedication
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• 1. The Dynamics of Public Financial Management Change in an International Context: Progress or a Progression of Questions, Contradictions, and Challenges?
• 2. Recent Public Sector Financial Management Change in Australia: Implementing the Market Model
• 3. New Public Management Reforms in Canada: Success and Failure?
• 4. Eastern European Nations and New Public Financial Management
• 5. NPM and the Irish Public Sector: From Reluctant Reformer to Statutory Codification
• 6. Public Sector FInancial Management Reform in Italy
• 7. New Zealand Public Sector Management and Accounting Reforms: The Hidden Agenda
• 8. Public Sector Financial Management Reforms in Spain
• 9. Public Sector Accounting Reforms in a Welfare State in Transition: The Case of Sweden
• 10. A Reflection on Accounting Reforms in Dutch Government
• 11. Financial Management in the UK Public Sector: Historical Development, Current Issues, and Controversies
• 12. Contemporary Public Financial Management and Budget Reform in the U.S. Federal Government