Balancing Control and Flexibility in Public Budgeting A New Role for
Michael Di Francesco is an Associate Professor and Case Program Director at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government, and the School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. He has held academic appointments at the Un
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Balancing Control and Flexibility in Public Budgeting
Michael Di Francesco • John Alford
Balancing Control and Flexibility in Public Budgeting A New Role for Rule Variability
Michael Di Francesco University of New South Wales (UNSW) The Australia and New Zealand School of Government Sydney, Australia
John Alford University of Melbourne The Australia and New Zealand School of Government Melbourne, Australia
ISBN 978-981-10-0340-0 ISBN 978-981-10-0341-7 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-0341-7
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Dedication from Michael Di Francesco For Karon and Alessandro Dedication from John Alford For all the public servants who get things done, despite the many obstacles in their way.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book is the product of ideas and explorations garnered from many conversations across the corridor that separates the authors’ offices. But there have been many contributions, from near and far, that the authors have great pleasure in acknowledging. The research on which the book is based was supported by a competitive Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) Research Grant (2012–2013). We are both very grateful to the School for this, and its continuing institutional backing. The project itself was superbly supported by the enthusiastic research assistance of Tom O’Connor, who himself is now practicing the art of budgetary control in the Australian Department of Finance. And during the research, officers within the Finance Department’s Governance and Resource Management Group provided helpful perspectives on the design and effectiveness of budget frameworks. A number of people generously read various incarnations of the draft wo
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