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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Budget process"”.
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African legislatures active in the budget process?! Emerging trends and consequences for legislative identity
… signals that they are becoming active in the budget process through the establishment of Budget Committees, Parliamentary Budget Offices, and Constituency Development Funds. These developments are surprising given the Westminster heritage of these institutions and periods of executive …
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Citizen participation in the budget process in local government: a case study of the eThekwini Municipality
… general, and citizens participation in the local budget process in particular. The study therefore aimed to assess the theoretical and policy framework for citizens participation in South Africa; and evaluated the perceptions of councillors and civics and ratepayer organisations on participation …
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Determining Source-Based and Party-Based Perspectives in the Federal Budget Process: A Content Analysis of United States Executive, Congressional and Agential Budget Communication from 1998 - 2000
… dissertation explored the differences in federal budget communication associated with the development and passage of the Federal Budget Resolution for Fiscal Years 1999, 2000, and 2001. A computer-aided (i.e., DICTION) content analysis was completed to explore Executive, Legislature, and Agency …
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An analysis of output based budgetting (OBB) in the Victorian government
… was to assess the usefulness of Output Based Budgeting (OBB) in the Victorian government in two ways using the decision-usefulness model and the budget process model as theoretical frameworks. First, this study aimed to examine the usefulness of information generated by OBB in the Victorian …
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The impact of the Iranian constitution on the law making power of the parliament (Majlis)
… case study and their law making power during the budget process analysed. The dichotomy of elected and unelected institutions is applied to the case in this chapter. Then the contribution of the elected and unelected institutions during the budget process is explained. The next part of this …
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The Politics of the Budgetary Process: The Case Study of Georgia Perimeter College
… project investigates Georgia Perimeter College’s budget process and the politics that is associated with it. This case study is an exploratory analysis. This type of methodology is ideal when a holistic, in‐depth investigation is needed. Also the method seeks to identify influences on performance. …
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The Interaction of western budgeting and Solomon Islands culture: A case of the budgeting process of the Church of Melanesia
… explores the application of a western style budgeting process in a non-western society. It uses the Anglican Church of Melanesia (CoM), a non-profit organisation in a developing country, Solomon Islands, as the case study. Its primary objective is to theorise on the process concepts …
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Superintendents and Fiscally Dependent School District Budget Approval
Because the public school budgeting process is arguably the single most important process in a school district, the budgeting process is a leadership challenge for the Superintendent. This leadership challenge is even more pronounced in fiscally dependent school districts where the school board …
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Administration and ambiguity: a study of the roles and routines in the budget execution process
The micro-level of administrative processes is in essence a set of interlocked roles and routines. Generally, such processes are viewed as neutral instruments and also of trivial importance. Contrary to such a view, this dissertation argues that at the micro-level, roles and routines, far from …
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Moving towards transparency and participation in the budgetary process : a case study of Sierra Leone
… achieving transparency and participation in the budget process has become part of the general rubric of national developments. By design and purpose, international policy makers and leaderships of emerging economies are pursuing new public financial management strategies to increase the role of …
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Biennial budgeting in the Department of Defense: a midterm assessment with a comparison to biennial budgeting at the state level
A major budget reform proposal that is being studied, and has been implemented within the Department of Defense (DoD) is biennial budgeting. The Fiscal Year (FY) 1986 Defense Authorization Act directed DoD to submit two-year defense budgets beginning in FY 1988. Although relatively a new …
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A methodology for developing hospital standards
… including the cost accounting system, the budget process, and staffing assessments. The methodology is developed for labor, supply, and equipment standards. The cost accounting system requires standards for variable labor, fixed labor, variable supplies, fixed direct other supplies, and …
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Product development process design : improving development response to market, technical, and regulatory risks
… new products and employing product development processes (PDPs) to coherently manage the risks inherent in their development. Well-designed PDPs reduce development time, create better products, generate profit, and increase market share. In contrast, poorly-designed PDPs can severely harm both …
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American grail: Contemporary federal budget reform
Federal budget reforms initiated by the executive branch of government have been unsustainable. A commonality of these failed reforms is that they lack the support of Congress. The objective of this research is to determine whether the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART), the most recent …
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Budget reform: an evaluation of the implementation of performance budgeting in the Department of Health, Mpumalanga
… effectiveness of public service delivery. The budgeting system is a critically important tool with which to do this. Budget reform consists not only of reforming the resource allocation process, but goes much further to include reform of financial planning and management systems and processes …
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The Effect of a Capital Budget on Capital Spending in the U.S. States
This thesis analyzes the impact of capital budget on capital spending in the U.S. states. The analysis is based on the James Poterba's 1995 study of the impact of a capital budget on capital spending using 1962 U.S. state-level data. I first replicate Poterba's model using the 1992-1996 data set …
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Influence of politics on the budgeting process : a study of the fertiliser manufacturing industry in Indonesia
… investigates the influence of politics on the budgeting process within the fertiliser manufacturing industry in Indonesia. Prior budgeting studies have focused on one of the following three theoretical frameworks - economic, psychological, and social. This study expands the research corpus by …
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Designing Public Organizations and Institutions: Essays on Coordination and Incentives
… myopic best replies, have limited information processing capabilities, and may occasionally experiment or make mistakes. Communication may increase efficiency, but as agents face a trade-off between lowering the strategic uncertainty for the group and the costs of communication, the least …
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The impact of budgeting on defining the police role and function
<p>The hypothesis in this thesis is that the budget document of police organizations will serve to define their role and function in society. Although the argument centers around municipal police organizations the principles will apply to any level of police activity. The argument begins by …
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Factors affecting parliament's performance of budgetary oversight in Botswana
… of Botswana has effectively performed its budgetary oversight role as a result of its improved or weakened experience with the selected factors associated with better parliamentary performance. In its analysis, the study makes use of data from various sources including survey data from the …
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