The Oxford Handbook of Public Management

The Oxford Handbook of Public Management
Author: Ewan Ferlie
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 805
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 019922644X

The public sector continues to play a strategic role across the world and in the last thirty years there have been major shifts in approaches to its management. This text identifies the trends in public management and the effects these have had, as well as providing a broad overview to each topic.

How to Improve the Financial Oversight of Public Corporations

How to Improve the Financial Oversight of Public Corporations
Author: Mr.Richard I Allen
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 21
Release: 2016-11-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1475551983

Many studies have highlighted how failures of public corporations (otherwise known as state-owned enterprises) can result in huge economic and fiscal costs. To contain the risks associated with these costs, an effective regime for the financial supervision and oversight of public corporations should be put in place. This note discusses the legal, institutional, and procedural arrangements that governments need to oversee the financial operations of their public corporations, ensure accountability for their performance, and manage the fiscal risks they present. In particular, it recommends that governments should focus their surveillance on public corporations that are large in relation to the economy, create fiscal risks, are not profitable, are unstable financially, or are heavily dependent on government subsidies or guarantees.

Transparency in Government Operations

Transparency in Government Operations
Author: Mr.J. D. Craig
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 50
Release: 1998-02-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 155775697X

Transparency in government operations is widely regarded as an important precondition for macroeconomic fiscal sustainability, good governance, and overall fiscal rectitude. Notably, the Interim Committee, at its April and September 1996 meetings, stressed the need for greater fiscal transparency. Prompted by these concerns, this paper represents a first attempt to address many of the aspects of transparency in government operations. It provides an overview of major issues in fiscal transparency and examines the IMF's role in promoting transparency in government operations.

The Oxford Handbook Public Accountability

The Oxford Handbook Public Accountability
Author: M. A. P. Bovens
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks
Total Pages: 737
Release: 2014-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199641250

Drawing on the best scholars in the field from around the world, this handbook showcases conceptual and normative as well as the empirical approaches in public accountability studies.

The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant

The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant
Author: Helen Sullivan
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 1737
Release: 2021-06-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9783030299798

The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant examines what it means to be a public servant in today’s world(s) where globalisation and neoliberalism have proliferated the number of actors who contribute to the public purpose sector and created new spaces that public servants now operate in. It considers how different scholarly approaches can contribute to a better understanding of the identities, motivations, values, roles, skills, positions and futures for the public servant, and how scholarly knowledge can be informed by and translated into value for practice. The book combines academic contributions with those from practitioners so that key lessons may be synthesised and translated into the context of the public servant.

'Accountability'

'Accountability'
Author: R. G. Mulgan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 18
Release: 2000
Genre: Government business enterprises
ISBN: 9780731534159

Managing Public Money

Managing Public Money
Author: Great Britain. Treasury
Publisher: Stationery Office Books (TSO)
Total Pages: 69
Release: 2007
Genre: Finance, Public
ISBN: 9780115601262

Dated October 2007. The publication is effective from October 2007, when it replaces "Government accounting". Annexes to this document may be viewed at www.hm-treasury.gov.uk

Accountability in Public Policy Partnerships

Accountability in Public Policy Partnerships
Author: J. Steets
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2010-10-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230290612

A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. This book presents a new model of accountability which ensures that public-private partnerships don't erode public accountability. It defines concrete accountability standards for different types of partnerships.