| Edition |
Second edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Institute of Public Administration of Canada series in public management and governance
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Institute of Public Administration of Canada series in public management and governance.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Annotation Public money is one of the primary currencies of influence for politicians and public servants. It affects the standards by which they undertake the nation's business and impacts the standard of living of the nation's citizens. David A. Good's The Politics of Public Money examines the extent to which the Canadian federal budgetary process is shifting from one based on a bilateral relationship between departmental spenders and central guardians to one based on a more complex, multilateral relationship involving a variety of players. This new edition offers an up-to-date account of the Canadian system, including the creation of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, the government's response to the global financial crisis, Canada's Economic Action Plan, strategic and operating reviews, the most recent attempts to reform the Estimates, and much more. An insightful and incisive study of the changing budgetary process, The Politics of Public Money examines the promises and pitfalls of budgetary reform and sheds new light on the role insiders play in influencing government spending. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One: The Changing Politics of Public Money -- 1 Beyond Spenders and Guardians -- Spenders and Guardians -- From Old Village to New Town -- Beyond Spenders and Guardians -- Priority Setters -- Watchdogs -- Priority Setters and Watchdogs -- New Questions -- Part Two: The Public Money Players -- 2 The Guardians and the Changing Role of the Budget Office -- Guardians and Budget Functions -- Guardians and Budget Components -- Guardians and the Budgetary Process -- Different Guardians |
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""Guardians Diverging: ""Let the Managers Manage � Come Hell or High Water"" """"Guardians and Central Reserves""; ""Guardians Apart""; ""3 Why Spenders Keep Spending""; ""Getting Money""; ""Keeping Money""; ""Spending Money""; ""The Reciprocity of Expenditure Information and Expenditure Increases ""; ""Priorities and Allocations, Not Performance and Allocations""; ""4 The Priority Setters at the Centre""; ""The Centre""; ""The Most Important of All Relationships""; ""Priorities, Big and Small""; ""The Prime Minister's Arms ""; ""Priority Setters and Shift Points"" |
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5 The Watchdogs: The Barks That BiteBuilding Credibility on Professionalism and Independence -- The Performance Audit: The Audit for All Reasons -- Mutual Expectations -- Watching Both Spenders and Guardians -- The Financial Watchdog and Internal Departmental Auditors -- The Watchdogs and Parliamentarians -- Indirect Influence, but Influence -- Part Three: The Public Money Processes -- 6 Fiscal Aggregates: Controlling Totals -- Credibility and Uncertainty -- The Prudent Economic and Fiscal Outlook -- The Prudent Fiscal Framework: Achieving Achievable Targets |
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Economic StimulusThe Elastic Fiscal Dividend -- Prudence and Its Consequences -- Exposing the Fiscal Framework -- Containing Aggregates by Making Allocations -- 7 Budget Allocations -- Allocations Types -- The Big Fixes -- The Big-Ticket Items -- The Must-Dos -- Small-Budget Items -- Tax Expenditures -- Reductions -- Reallocations -- Budget Allocations Are Incremental -- 8 Budget Implementation: Financial Management and Efficiency -- On Paper -- Successfully Implementing the Economic Action Plan -- The First Line of Defence |
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Victims of Conflicting Norms: The Chief Financial OfficerThe Second Line of Defence -- Victims of the Intractability of Cultural Change: The Comptroller General -- On Becoming Players -- Part Four: New Prospects for Public Money -- 9 Parliament and Public Money -- Parliament as Watchdog -- Shaping Government Spending: The Commons Finance Committee -- Approving Government Spending: The Business of Supply -- Holding Government Accountable for Spending: The Public Accounts Committee -- Realism and Reform -- 10 Budget Reforms -- Budgets and Reforms |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Finance, Public -- Canada.
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Finance, Public. |
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Canada. |
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Government spending policy -- Canada.
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Government spending policy. |
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Budget -- Political aspects -- Canada.
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Budget -- Political aspects. |
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Canada -- Appropriations and expenditures.
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Budget process -- Canada.
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Budget. |
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Expenditures, Public. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Affairs & Administration. |
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Budget process. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Theory. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Good, David A. Politics of public money. Second edition 9781442647411 (OCoLC)862544837 |
| ISBN |
9781442668119 (electronic book) |
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1442668113 (electronic book) |
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9781442647411 |
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1442647418 |
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9781442615526 |
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1442615524 |
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