{"product_id":"politics-of-public-money-second-edition-9781442647411","title":"Politics of Public Money Second Edition","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublic 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Politics of Public\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eMoney \u003c\/em\u003eexamines 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn insightful and incisive study of the changing budgetary process, \u003cem\u003eThe Politi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Essential reading for public servants and politicians at all levels who seek to be budget players, and for serious students of Canadian politics.\" -- Douglas Brown Canadian Public Policy \"An important addition to our understanding of public finance and to our knowledge of how the federal government operates in practice. [The Politics of Public Money] is a very worthwhile book that should be widely read.\" -- Janice MacKinnon Canadian Public Administration \"A surprisingly good read for a book on budget practices ... It offers a fresh perspective on how budgeting actually works.\" -- Lewis Hawke Australian Journal of Public Administration\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword - Patrice Dutil  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 of the Changing Role of the Budget Office    Guardians and Budget Functions  Guardians and Budget Components  Guardians and the Budgetary Process  Different Guardians  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    5. The Watchdogs: Barks that Bite    Building 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 Department 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  Economic Stimulus  The 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  Victims of Conflicting Norms: The Chief Financial Officer  The 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  'Rational' Reform: The Road to Program Budgeting (pre-1962-78)  The Grand Design: Policy and Expenditure Management System (1979-83)  Incremental and Continuous Change (1984-93)  Program Review and Prudent Budgeting (1994-2003)  'A Continuous Culture of Reallocation' (2004-6)  Strengthening the Watchdogs: The Federal Accountability Act (2006-8)  Recalibration: Strategic and Operating Review (2007 and onward)  Reflections on Reforms    11. Doing Better with Public Money?    Theory and Practice  Reactive, but with Some Resilience  The Uneasy Balance of Competing Budgetary Objectives  Establish an Expenditure Review Committee of Cabinet  Restore a Treasury Board Secretariat Role in Expenditure Review and Allocation  Link Priorities, Expenditure Programs, and Performance  Institutionalize the Role of the Parliamentary Budget Officer  The Politics of Public Money    Notes  Index\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408370016599,"sku":"9781442647411","price":59.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/politics-of-public-money-second-edition-9781442647411","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}