Public Budgeting in Search for an Identity: State of the Art and Future Challenges

Public Budgeting in Search of an Identity: State of the Art and Future Challenges provides a state-of-the-art reflection on current trends in international public budgeting, representing an important pillar in the accumulation of knowledge on public sector budgeting processes, contents, evolutions, and critical issues. It highlights the need to explore budgeting processes in the public sector due to managerial reforms, austerity programmes, and emerging challenges such as community care, inequality, people, climate change, pandemics, and democratic deficits. The chapters offer new perspectives on participatory budgeting, performance budgeting, budgetary slack resources, and the need for balance between budget control and flexibility.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 146 pages
Publication date: 25 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Public Budgeting in Search for an Identity: State of the Art and Future Challenges offers a comprehensive and up-to-date reflection on current trends in international public budgeting, serving as a vital pillar in the accumulation of knowledge on public sector budgeting processes, contents, evolutions, and critical issues.

Budgeting holds a central position within public sector organizations, encompassing a diverse range of functions that make it an incredibly intriguing field and subject of investigation. The need and scope for exploring budgeting processes in the public sector are particularly significant today, owing to the managerial waves of reforms that have taken place over the past few decades, as well as the implementation of austerity programs, in addition to considering current trends such as emerging challenges related to community care and wellbeing, rising inequality, population flows, climate change, pandemics, and the persistence of democratic deficits.

The chapters in this volume address critical issues on this broad topic, presenting fresh perspectives on the current evolutions in public budgeting, including participatory budgeting, performance budgeting, budgetary slack resources, and the importance of maintaining a balance between budget control and flexibility. These contributions demonstrate that public budgeting can and must continue to hold a lasting interest in our studies.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Public Management Review.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367679668