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PIA 2000 Introduction to Public Affairs

PIA 2000 Introduction to Public Affairs. Managing Budgets and Money. PIA 2000 Focus. Themes for the Week: Bureaucracies, Budgets and Decision-Making. How Purposeful?. Decision-Making Models and Spending: An Overview of Concepts. Rational- Comprehensive

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PIA 2000 Introduction to Public Affairs

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  1. PIA 2000 Introduction to Public Affairs Managing Budgets and Money

  2. PIA 2000 Focus Themes for the Week: Bureaucracies, Budgets and Decision-Making

  3. How Purposeful?

  4. Decision-Making Models and Spending: An Overview of Concepts • Rational- Comprehensive • Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) • Bureaucratic Politics • Group Think • Satisficing/Incrementalism • Cybernetic Theories (chaos theory) • Decision-Making and Financial Management (The Hub of the Debate)

  5. Decision-Making and Budgets Themes and Definitions

  6. 1. Rational Model • Comprehensive Approach • Optimal for achieving a goal or solving a problem. Determining optimality for rational behavior • Complete Availability of Information

  7. Zero Based Budgets

  8. 2. Standard Operating Procedures- SOPs

  9. Standard Operating Procedures • Pre-defined steps and activities of a process or procedure. An SOP provides employees in an organizational set of actions response to common external practices, activities, or tasks. • Established Procedures

  10. SOPs- Scientific Origins

  11. Bureaucratic Politics • Officials are motivated by the need to promote their own organizations special interests in Competition with other Agencies in the decisions that they make • “Defending their Turf”

  12. Bureaucratic Politics • Military Phrase:

  13. Group Think • Group members, fearing to upset the leader, try to minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without critical evaluation of alternative ideas or viewpoint

  14. Group Think?

  15. Satisficing/Incrementalism • Satisficing is a decision-making strategy that attempts to meet an acceptability threshold (first available option) at a very low level of analysis (Herbert Simon) • Incrementalism is a method of working by adding (or subtracting) to a project using many small (often unplanned) changes

  16. Satisficing/Incrementalism

  17. Incrementalism

  18. Cybernetic Theories vs. Chaos • Cybernetic Theories:  Causal chains of action that move from action to sensing to comparison with desired goal, and again to action (Models based on electricity, mechanics, or machines) • Chaos: Small differences in initial conditions (such as those due to rounding errors in numerical computation) yield widely diverging outcomes

  19. Cybernetics

  20. Chaos

  21. Decision-Making and Financial Management A Review of Themes

  22. Themes a. Budget: Recurrent vs. Capital (Development) Budgets b. Financial Management- Incrementalism and Satisficing vs. Zero Based Budgeting (Planning Systems) c. Accounting- Cost and Benefit vs. profit and loss

  23. Themes d. Auditing vs. Accountability- Quantitative vs. Qualitative e. Evaluating- Assessment vs. Judgement f. Budgeting: Two themes- Reforming and Decision-making

  24. Acounting vs. Acountability

  25. 1. Privatization and Contracting Out- Commercialization and intra-governmental competition (E.S. Savas) 2. Economic Bureaucracy, Public Sector Management: An Asian Model? (Chalmers Johnson) 3. End of the Third World? End of Development Budgets (SAPS) (Nigel Harris) Decision-Making and Financial Management (Review of Issues and Authors)

  26. The Asian Model Issue

  27. Decision-Making and Financial Management 4. Imbalance- Political vs. Bureaucratic Development in the role of financial management (The Corruption Problem) (Ferrel Heady) 5. Values and Education, money and Bricks- Development Management (John Armstrong) 6. International Organizations, NGOs and Development (Contracts vs. Grants) (Paul Nelson)

  28. Bureaucracy and the Danger of Corruption- World Patterns

  29. Decision-Making and Financial Management 8. Private Sector Development vs. Development Management: The role of public sector financial management (Oversight) (Mark Turner and David Hulme) 9. Public Sector Reform (Guy Peters and Michael Barzelay) 10. (Planning vs. Budgeting) Naomi Caiden and Aaron Wildavsky- 11. Is Budgeting and financial management impacted by Group Think? (Irving Janis)

  30. Planning, Financial and Budgetary Management Systems in Poor Counties • Five historical periods- From a development perspective • Caiden and Wildavsky- Planning and Budgeting in Poor Countries • Best Book on realities of Public Budgeting and Development

  31. Ten Minute Break

  32. Historical Periods: Famous Five i. Until the 1950s- recurrent budgets- law and order. ii. 1950s-1960s- growth. Domestic development Funds with bilateral technical assistance =Recurrent vs. Development budgets iii. 1960s-1970s: Distribution and basic needs. World Bank and Poorest of the poor

  33. iv. Mid-1970s to mid-1980s: Planning vs. Budgets • Planning demanded by technical assistance • Technical assistance- both grants and loans (no private loans to Africa) • Project planning "wins" over national planning and budgeting systems

  34. v. The Current State of Financial Management: Structural Adjustment • (Since 2001)- Structural Adjustment vs. Social Crisis

  35. Conditionality- What is the future? Privatization of the economy a. divestiture b. contracting out c. liquidation d. sell off public private partnership shares

  36. Privatization Debates

  37. The Current State of Financial Management 1. IMF Stabilization- currency reform, auctions and trade liberalization 2. Decentralized Budgeting- Part of Governance Debate 3. World Bank and UNDP "Management" - Opposing views to SAPs 4. Human Resource Development (Millennium Development Goals)

  38. The Current State of Financial Management 5. Continued Absence of recurrent budgets and loss of control in Crisis: especially re. “Terror Prone,” Collapsed and Fragile States 6. Activity (economy) driven by technical assistance projects - the only game in town 7. Bridging and sectoral loans and grants- major source of international involvement 8. Crisis in Governance and Human Security

  39. Somalia- 2008

  40. Canadian Broadcasting System Image INDEPTH: ECONOMYOutsourcing: Contracting out becomes big businessCBC News Online | March 7, 2006

  41. What is the Future? Privatization (Commercialization) of the bureaucracy vs. IN-SOURCING- Reinventing Government

  42. The Bureaucracy and Decisions • Another View

  43. Book Discussion • All the Kings Men (Robert Penn Warren) • The Promised Land (Nicholas Lemann) • What these books tell us about Public Policy and Public Affairs?

  44. Presentations: Next Book Discussion November 8 • MPA Group- Daniel Okrent, The Last Call • MPIA Group-Dina Rasor and Robert Bauman, Betraying Our Troops • MID Group- Louis A. Picard, A Fragile Balance • MPPM Group- Janine Wedel, Shadow Elite

  45. Daniel Okrent- New York Times Born 1948

  46. Dina Rasor and Robert Bauman • Dina Rasor is the Chief Investigator of the Follow the Money Project • Robert Bauman was Criminal Investigator for the Department of Defense

  47. Janine Wedel

  48. Terry Buss (2010) and Louis A. Picard (and Colleagues, 1966)

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