Public Management in Times of Austerity. A Literature Review: Paper prepared for 20th Annual Conference of the IRSPM, China City University of Hong Kong and The Polytechnic University of Hong Kong
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Public Management in Times of Austerity. A Literature Review : Paper prepared for 20th Annual Conference of the IRSPM, China City University of Hong Kong and The Polytechnic University of Hong Kong. / Sørensen, Eva Camilla Moll; Kristiansen, Mads Bøge.
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T1 - Public Management in Times of Austerity. A Literature Review
T2 - Paper prepared for 20th Annual Conference of the IRSPM, China City University of Hong Kong and The Polytechnic University of Hong Kong
AU - Sørensen, Eva Camilla Moll
AU - Kristiansen, Mads Bøge
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This paper represents the first draft of a second chapter for a forthcoming volume on PublicManagement in Times of Austerity. The book focuses on the management of two austerity policies,budgetary reform and expenditure cutbacks, in five European countries. The paper presents areview of literatures on budgetary- and financial management reform and on cutback management.On this basis, a set of propositions is formulated concerning the character (the hows) of budgetaryreforms and cutback management in the present age of austerity and concerning the significance ofvarying economic and institutional factors (the whys) to the management of budgetary reform andcutbacks. It is, for example, argued that fiscal discipline may in the short term crowd out thoseperformance-oriented reforms that are meant to improve operational efficiency whereas in thelonger term higher levels of fiscal pressure may lead to budgetary reforms that aim at improvingallocative effectiveness across organizational borders in government. In this respect, the presentconditions of austerity are expected to reinforce the ongoing transformation of reform trajectoriesfrom the principles of the NPM towards those of ‘post-NPM’ reform.
AB - This paper represents the first draft of a second chapter for a forthcoming volume on PublicManagement in Times of Austerity. The book focuses on the management of two austerity policies,budgetary reform and expenditure cutbacks, in five European countries. The paper presents areview of literatures on budgetary- and financial management reform and on cutback management.On this basis, a set of propositions is formulated concerning the character (the hows) of budgetaryreforms and cutback management in the present age of austerity and concerning the significance ofvarying economic and institutional factors (the whys) to the management of budgetary reform andcutbacks. It is, for example, argued that fiscal discipline may in the short term crowd out thoseperformance-oriented reforms that are meant to improve operational efficiency whereas in thelonger term higher levels of fiscal pressure may lead to budgetary reforms that aim at improvingallocative effectiveness across organizational borders in government. In this respect, the presentconditions of austerity are expected to reinforce the ongoing transformation of reform trajectoriesfrom the principles of the NPM towards those of ‘post-NPM’ reform.
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