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PIA 2000 Introduction to Public Affairs. Managing Budgets and Money. PIA 2000 Focus. Bureaucracies, Budgets and Decision-Making. Decision-Making Models and Spending: An Overview. Rational- Comprehensive Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) Bureaucratic Politics Group Think
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PIA 2000 Introduction to Public Affairs Managing Budgets and Money
PIA 2000 Focus Bureaucracies, Budgets and Decision-Making
Decision-Making Models and Spending: An Overview • Rational- Comprehensive • Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) • Bureaucratic Politics • Group Think • Satisficing/Incrementalism • Cybernetic Theories (chaos theory)
Decision-Making and Budgets Themes and Definitions
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
Themes d. Auditing vs. Accountability- Quantitative vs. Qualitative e. Evaluating- Assessment vs. Judgement f. Budgeting: Two themes- Reforming and Decision-making
Decision-Making and Financial Management A Review of Themes
1. Savas- Privatization and Contracting Out- Commercialization and intra-governmental competition 2. Johnson- Economic Bureaucracy, Public Sector Management: A Japanese Model? 3. Harris- End of the Third World? End of Development Budgets Decision-Making and Financial Management (Review of Issues)
Decision-Making and Financial Management 4. Heady- Imbalance- Political vs. Bureaucratic Development in the role of financial management (The Corruption Problem) 5. Armstrong- Values, money and Development Management 6. Nelson- International Organizations, NGOs and Development (Contracts vs. Grants)
Decision-Making and Financial Management 8. Turner and Hulme- Private Sector Development vs. Development Management: The role of public sector financial management (Oversight) 9. Peters and Barzelay-Public Sector Reform 10. Caiden and Wildavsky- Planning vs. Budgeting 11. Janis-Is Budgeting and financial management impacted by Group Think?
Planning, Financial and Budgetary Management Systems in Poor Counties • Five historical periods- From a development perspective • Read Caiden and Wildavsky • Best Book on realities of Public Budgeting and Development
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
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
v. The Current State of Financial Management: Structural Adjustment • (Since 2001)- Structural Adjustment vs. Social Crisis
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
DecentralizedBudgets Bottom Up Model for Health Service Delivery
The Current State of Financial Management 4. Continued Absence of recurrent budgets and loss of control in Crisis: especially re. “Terror Prone,” Collapsed and Fragile States 5. Activity (economy) driven by technical assistance projects - the only game in town 6. Bridging and sectoral loans and grants- major source of international involvement
Conditionality- What is the future? 1. Privatization of the economy a. divestiture b. contracting out c. liquidation d. sell off public private partnership shares
Canadian Broadcasting System Image INDEPTH: ECONOMYOutsourcing: Contracting out becomes big businessCBC News Online | March 7, 2006
What is the Future? 2. Privatization (Commercialization) of the bureaucracy IN-SOURCING- Reinventing Government
Commercialization- Negatives a. Individuals work with investments and the service/commercial sector b. Departments sell their services- eg. statistics in Zaire/DRC c. Sub-economic salaries- offices and telephones- buying soap and selling chickens
Commercialization- Negatives d. International conditions for "good" bureaucrats, eg. World Bank in Uganda- special salaries for those on contract with the project e. Goal: Return to the recurrent budgeting process of the 1950s?
Back to the Future? New Framework: Subsidiarity and decentralized budgeting?
How Important is Budgeting? Comments, Questions, Discussion.
Presentations: Next Week’s Discussion • 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
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
Terry Buss (2010) and Louis A. Picard (and Colleagues, 1966)