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July 2014, Volume 34, Issue 4
- 281-288 The impact of metropolitan amalgamations in Sydney on municipal financial sustainability
by Joseph Drew & Brian Dollery - 289-296 Time-driven activity-based costing for public services
by Kristof Stouthuysen & Kevin Schierhout & Filip Roodhooft & Evelien Reusen - 297-304 The dynamics of voluntary benchmarking in the water sector
by Matias Laine & Eija Vinnari - 305-308 New development: Reintroducing the zone of indifference: disengaging the cogs of public service performance and citizen satisfaction
by Étienne Charbonneau & Younhee Kim & Alexander C. Henderson
May 2014, Volume 34, Issue 3
- 157-158 Editorial
by Andrew Massey - 158-159 Debate: A social security system can only reflect wider society
by Mark Serwotka - 159-161 Debate: Reforming state welfare
by Nick Hillman - 161-163 Debate: From the front line to the back stage-how the financial crisis has quietly strengthened the European Commission
by Michael W. Bauer & Stefan Becker - 165-172 Local preferencing for local suppliers: examining the use of locality in public procurement
by Adam M. Williams - 173-180 Assessing contract policy work: overseeing Canadian policy consultants
by Michael Howlett & Andrea Migone - 181-188 An offer they couldn't refuse (but probably should have): the ineffectiveness of Italian state subsidies to movie-making
by Emanuele Teti & Alan Collins & John Sedgwick - 189-196 Developing performance audit in Spanish local government: an empirical study of a way forward
by Carolina Pontones Rosa & Rosario P�rez Morote & Malcolm J. Prowle - 197-204 Performance information in the Irish public sector: a comparison with the UK
by Francis McGeough - 205-212 Welfare reform and devolution: issues of parity, discretion and divergence for the UK government and the devolved administrations
by Derek Birrell & Ann Marie Gray - 213-220 Separation anxiety: an empirical evaluation of the Australian Sunshine Coast Regional Council de-amalgamation
by Joseph Drew & Brian Dollery - 221-226 New development: Wang Anshi's Wanyanshu as the origins of modern public management?
by Yunxiao Xu & Caichen Ma & James L. Chan - 227-232 New development: Eight and a half propositions to stimulate frugal innovation
by Jean Hartley - 233-236 New development: The role of accounting in assessing local government sustainability
by Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar & Andrés Navarro Galera & Laura Alcaide Muñoz - 237-241 New development: Time for a consequential impact tax to support the NHS?
by Gordon Greenshields
March 2014, Volume 34, Issue 2
- 79-81 Editorial
by Giuseppe Grossi & Denita Cepiku - 83-90 The EU's public finance crisis: causes, consequences and cure
by S. J. Bailey & P. Valkama & S. Salonen - 91-98 The success story of the Eurozone crisis? Ireland's austerity measures
by Geraldine Robbins & Irvine Lapsley - 99-106 Managing austerity: rhetorical and real responses to fiscal stress in local government
by J. F. A. (Tom) Overmans & Mirko Noordegraaf - 107-114 Assessing the influence of socioeconomic drivers on Italian municipal financial destabilization
by Emma Capalbo & Giuseppe Grossi - 115-122 How (should) public authorities report on state-owned enterprises for financial sustainability and cutback management--a new quality model
by Ulf Papenfuß - 123-130 Interpreting financial balance in local government: a case study from Finland
by Lotta-Maria Sinervo - 131-134 New development: Canada's cutback management
by Ian Roberge - 135-138 New development: Where there's a will, there's a way--acting beyond cutbacks
by Eugenio Caperchione & Federica Salvatori & Elisabetta Benghi - 139-141 Debate: Autonomy, governance, accountability and a new audit regime
by Sheila Ellwood - 141-143 Debate: Public procurement needs outcome evaluations
by J. Gordon Murray - 145-152 Fiscal outcomes and tax impacts from stadium financing strategies in Arlington, Texas
by Brian M. Mills & Mark S. Rosentraub & Jason A. Winfree & Michael B. Cantor - 153-156 New development: The comparative study of secession referendums
by Matt Qvortrup
January 2014, Volume 34, Issue 1
- 3-4 Editorial
by Andrew Massey - 4-8 Debate: Scotland, the United Kingdom and complex government
by Duncan McTavish - 8-10 Debate: Open Access in academic journal publishing
by Helena Djurkovic - 11-18 Seven Principles of Public Life: time to rethink
by Paul Spicker - 19-26 Civil society commissioning: the accounting contribution to strategy
by Kirsten Greenhalgh & Donald Harradine - 27-34 Managing overhead in public sector organizations through benchmarking
by Mark Huijben & Arno Geurtsen & Jan van Helden - 35-42 Does clinical management improve efficiency? Evidence from the English National Health Service
by Gianluca Veronesi & Ian Kirkpatrick & Francesco Vallascas - 43-50 PPP projects in transport: evidence from light rail projects in Spain
by Samuel Carpintero & Ole Helby Petersen - 51-58 Analysis of fraud risk in public construction projects in China
by Xiaomei Deng & Yuhong Wang & Qianqian Zhang & Judy Xiye Huang & Jingjing Cui - 59-66 New development: Financial reform and good governance
by Pat Barrett - 67-70 New development: Accounting and accountability for government revenues in Iraq
by Talal A. Al-Kassar & Jared S. Soileau - 71-74 New development: UK government ambitions for a preventative agenda-- fact or 'futurewash'?
by Neil Reeder
November 2013, Volume 33, Issue 6
- 391-394 Reclaiming the ideal of public service
by Jane Broadbent - 395-397 Debate: Arm's- length bodies and alternative models of service delivery
by Katherine Tonkiss & Amy Noonan - 397-398 Debate: The search is on
by Michiel S. de Vries - 399-406 Managed personal budgets for older people: what are English local authorities doing to facilitate personalized and flexible care?
by Kate Baxter & Parvaneh Rabiee & Caroline Glendinning - 407-414 The imperatives for organizational governance in a large charity: a strategic choice perspective
by Phil Saj - 415-420 Rising accountability of Australian non-government schools
by Bruce Gurd - 421-428 Does Europe still represent a healthy deal in times of increased global challenges and reduced levels of growth? A market, service and social perspective of European healthcare
by Barry Ardley & John Mcmanus & David Floyd - 429-436 IPSAS and local government consolidated financial statements—proposal for a territorial consolidation method
by Alessandro Lombrano & Luca Zanin - 437-444 Legitimating International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS): the case of Spain
by Isabel Brusca & Vicente Montesinos & Danny S. L. Chow - 445-452 Comparing the content of regulatory impact assessments in the UK and the EU
by Oliver Fritsch & Claudio M. Radaelli & Lorna Schrefler & Andrea Renda - 453-457 New development: Recent changes to the UK's regulatory process
by Michael Gibbons & David Parker - 459-462 New development: The crisis and European local government reforms
by Marco Meneguzzo & Alessandro Sancino & Marcel Guenon & Gloria Fiorani - 463-468 New development: High speed rail in Great Britain—its rationale and purpose
by Tony Bolden & Reg Harman
September 2013, Volume 33, Issue 5
- 311-312 Editorial
by Robert Jupe - 313-319 The privatized railways: problems foreseen
by David Parker - 321-328 ‘Failing to deliver’—the privatized British rail freight industry
by Sean McCartney & John Stittle - 329-336 Reunifying Britain's railways: obstacles and opportunities
by Ian Taylor & Lynn Sloman - 337-341 New development: Going off the rails? Rail franchising after the cancellation of the West Coast franchise competition
by Robert Jupe - 343-348 New development: The purpose and planning of railways in the 21st century
by Tony Bolden & Reg Harman - 349-351 Debate: Can local government drive adaptation to climate change?
by Martina Linnenluecke - 351-352 Debate: Local councils' dilemma of planning for uncertainty
by Alan Stokes - 353-360 Wang Anshi and the origins of modern public management in Song Dynasty China
by Wolfgang Drechsler - 361-368 Implementing Lean Six Sigma in healthcare: issues from Italy
by Andrea Chiarini & Enrico Bracci - 369-376 CEO performance evaluation systems: empirical findings from the Italian health service
by Adele Caldarelli & Clelia Fiondella & Marco Maffei & Rosanna Spanò & Massimo Aria - 377-382 The politics of utility reform: a case study of the Ugandan water sector
by Dorcas Mbuvi & Klaas Schwartz - 383-388 Implementation and challenges of introducing NPM and accrual accounting in Indonesian local government
by Harun Harun & Yi An & Abdul Kahar
July 2013, Volume 33, Issue 4
- 235-240 Comparing for improvement: recent developments in benchmarking
by Clive Grace & Alan Fenna - 241-242 Debate: Local government selfimprovement— benchmarking through LG Inform
by Carolyn Downs - 242-244 Debate: Benchmarking inequality—driving education progress in the USA
by Arnold F. Shober - 245-252 Does ‘naming and shaming’ work for schools and hospitals? Lessons from natural experiments following devolution in England and Wales
by Gwyn Bevan & Deborah Wilson - 253-260 Beginning to unlock the black box of the budgetary performance evaluation practices in China: a case study of evaluation reports from Zhejiang province
by Elaine Yi Lu - 261-268 Internal and external use of performance information in public organizations: results from an international survey
by Gerhard Hammerschmid & Steven Van de Walle & Vid Stimac - 269-276 Competing, collaborating or controlling? Comparing benchmarking in European local government
by Sabine Kuhlmann & Tim Jäkel - 277-280 New development: All change? Performance assessment regimes in UK local government
by Steve Martin & James Downe & Clive Grace & Sandra Nutley - 281-284 New development: The role of benchmarking in supporting improvement in local government— Scottish and Welsh practitioners' perspectives
by Mark McAteer & Andrew Stephens - 285-287 Debate: The need for procurement risk management
by J. Gordon Murray - 288-289 Debate: Advancing public service motivation research
by Donald P. Moynihan & Wouter Vandenabeele & Jens Blom-Hansen - 291-296 How the German government responded to the financial, economic and fiscal crises
by Walter Kickert - 297-303 New development: Towards a grand convergence? International proposals for aligning government budgets, accounts and finance statistics
by Jens Heiling & Sabine Schührer & James L. Chan - 305-308 New development: Comparative perspectives on political divorce settlements—what happens when a country secedes?
by Matt Qvortrup
May 2013, Volume 33, Issue 3
- 163-166 Editorial: Information for local governance. Data is the solution…what was the question again?
by Rob Wilson & Susan Baines & Irene Hardill & Martin Ferguson - 167-168 Debate: Information economies for social care: copy and paste or learning from ecommerce?
by Mike Martin - 168-170 Debate: Local governance in a clinical setting—a void that needs live conversations
by Nadeem Moghal - 171-176 The usefulness of performance reporting in local government: comparing Italy and Spain
by Vicente Montesinos & Isabel Brusca & Francesca Manes Rossi & Natalia Aversano - 177-184 ‘It's the tip of the iceberg’: the hidden tensions between theory, policy and practice in the management of Freedom of Information in English local government bodies—evidence from a regional study
by Paul Richter & Rob Wilson - 185-191 Disconnected communities? ICT, policy learning and the lessons for central--local relations
by Martin Laffin & Christianne Ormston - 193-200 Measuring up: examining the potential for voluntary sector performance measurement to improve public service delivery
by Claire Moxham - 201-208 Local governance in the new information ecology: the challenge of building interpretative communities
by James Cornford & Rob Wilson & Susan Baines & Ranald Richardson - 209-212 New development: The challenges of designing municipal governance indicators
by Nuno Ferreira da Cruz & Rui Cunha Marques - 213-216 New development: The paradox of outcomes—the more we measure, the less we understand
by Toby Lowe - 217-217 Debate: Internationalization and privatization of higher education
by Drummond Bone - 218-220 Debate: Radical reform or path dependency in action? The UK's welfare reforms
by Peter Hill - 221-224 ‘Lean’ policing? New approaches to business process improvement across the UK police service
by Harry Barton - 225-232 Performance management in fire and rescue services
by Pete Murphy & Kirsten Greenhalgh
March 2013, Volume 33, Issue 2
- 83-90 Introduction
by Jane Broadbent & Robin Middlehurst - 91-92 Debate: Do we really need world-class universities?
by Roger Brown - 92-94 Debate: Innovation in the Italian public higher education system: introducing accrual accounting
by Tommaso Agasisti & Giuseppe Catalano - 95-104 Internationalization and employability: the role of intercultural experiences in the development of transferable skills
by Elspeth Jones - 105-110 Are French universities under control?
by Marie Boitier & Anne Rivière - 111-117 The impact of internationalization on volume and quality of scholarly publication performance
by Adelien Decramer & Stijn Goeminne & Carine Smolders - 119-122 New development: Are our doctoral programmes doing what we think they are?
by Anne Lee - 123-130 Collaborative futures: discursive realignments in austere times
by Helen Sullivan & Paul Williams & Mick Marchington & Louise Knight - 131-136 The advantages of the balanced scorecard in the public sector: beyond performance measurement
by Benjamin Dreveton - 137-144 Direct administration of failing local authorities: democratic deficit or effective bureaucracy?
by Itai Beeri - 145-152 A case of arrested development? Delivering the UK National Fraud Strategy within competing policing policy priorities
by Alan Doig & Michael Levi - 153-160 Organizational barriers to adapting infrastructure assets to climate change: evidence from coastal councils in Australia
by Nick Sciulli
January 2013, Volume 33, Issue 1
- 3-4 Editorial: The need for a public service strategy
by Lord Bichard - 4-6 Debate: Dealing with spending reviews—Italy
by Marika Arena & Michela Arnaboldi - 6-8 Debate: Fraud risk management in the public sector
by Peter M. Jackson - 9-14 Research shapes policy: but the dynamics are subtle
by Robbie Foy & Louise Locock & Sarah Purdy & Catherine O'Donnell & Nicola Gray & Tim Doran & Huw Davies - 15-22 The role of interim managers in performance improvement: evidence from English local authorities
by Pauline Jas - 23-30 Keeping informed during times of economic downturn: the trusted amateur as a preferred source of financial information
by Sarah Hean & Louise Worswick & LeeAnn Fenge & Charlie Wilkinson & Stella Fearnley - 31-38 Performance measurement and management in Portuguese law enforcement
by Patrícia Gomes & Silvia M. Mendes - 39-46 Diverse management practices— a study of clinical managers
by Inger Johanne Pettersen - 47-54 Towards communicating the value of volunteers: lessons from the field
by Carolyn J. Cordery & Sarah B. Proctor-Thomson & Karen A. Smith - 55-62 How the Danish government responded to financial crises
by Walter Kickert - 63-70 Leasing by public authorities in Italy: creating economic value from a balance sheet illusion
by Veronica Vecchi & Mark Hellowell - 71-75 New development: Fiscal transparency in China—government policy and the role of social media
by Qi Zhang & James L. Chan - 77-80 New development: Policy tsars—Whitehall's expert advisers revealed
by Ruth Levitt & William Solesbury
November 2012, Volume 32, Issue 6
- 395-395 Editorial
by Jane Broadbent & Andrew Massey & Michaela Lavender - 396-397 Debate: Local public audit— comparison with the private sector
by Kathryn Cearns - 397-399 Debate: Shrinking the quango state— an international view
by Muiris MacCarthaigh - 399-400 Debate: From trendsetter to laggard? Quango reform in the UK
by Sandra van Thiel - 401-408 Cuts, collaboration and creativity
by Vivien Lowndes & Sharon Squires - 409-416 An ‘alternative mainstream’? The impact of financial inclusion policy on credit unions in Wales
by Jan Myers & Molly Scott Cato & Paul A. Jones - 417-424 The impact of individual budgets on the targeting of support: findings from a national evaluation of pilot projects in England
by Karen Jones & Ann Netten & José-Luis Fernández & Martin Knapp & David Challis & Caroline Glendinning & Sally Jacobs & Jill Manthorpe & Nicola Moran & Martin Stevens & Mark Wilberforce - 425-432 Commercialization partnerships as an enabler of UK public sector innovation: the perfect match?
by Magnus Schoeman & David Baxter & Keith Goffin & Pietro Micheli - 433-438 Social protection policies in developing countries: estimating the financial impact of new decisions
by Javier Bilbao-Ubillos - 439-443 How the Dutch government responded to financial, economic and fiscal crisis
by Walter Kickert - 445-452 Talent management for NHS managers: human resources or resourceful humans?
by Fraser Macfarlane & Joanne Duberley & Chris Fewtrell & Martin Powell - 453-460 Assessing the implementation of managerial reforms in Catalan government: the development of professional public management
by Francisco Longo & Marc Esteve
September 2012, Volume 32, Issue 5
- 323-324 Editorial
by Jane Broadbent & Andrew Massey & Michaela Lavender - 324-326 Debate: Reducing government procurement transaction costs— to pCard or not to pCard?
by J. Gordon Murray - 327-334 Shrinking the quango state: five challenges in reforming quangos
by Matthew Flinders & Chris Skelcher - 335-342 Old wine in new bottles: IFRS adoption in NHS foundation trusts
by Sheila Ellwood & Javier Garcia-Lacalle - 343-348 Cost-effectiveness and fairness in health care: NICE appraisals
by Li-cheng Chang - 349-356 Uncertainty and commitment in commissioning of health services
by Pinar Guven-Uslu - 357-361 French revolution and German circumspection: reforming budgeting and accounting in national governments
by Marine Portal & Evelyne Lande & Rowan Jones & Klaus Lüder - 363-370 Sustainable procurement in health and social care in Northern Ireland
by Andrew Erridge & Sean Hennigan - 371-378 The determinants of audit committees: evidence from the charity sector
by Juliana Jetty & Vivien Beattie - 381-388 Different cultures of management and their relationships with organizational performance: evidence from the UK ambulance service
by Paresh Wankhade - 389-392 New development: Local public audit—the changing landscape
by Sheila Ellwood & Javier Garcia-Lacalle
July 2012, Volume 32, Issue 4
- 239-239 Editorial
by Jane Broadbent & Andrew Massey & Michaela Lavender - 240-242 Debate: Focusing on programme implementation for improved accountability and results
by Pat Barrett - 242-244 Debate: Railway policy—another damp squib
by Francis Terry - 245-247 Debate: Can the third sector survive the recession? Evidence from Scotland
by Stephen P. Osborne - 249-256 Efficiency, choice and control in social care commissioning
by Mark Wilberforce & Kate Baxter & Caroline Glendinning - 257-264 Impact assessments and better regulation: the role of the UK's Regulatory Policy Committee
by Michael Gibbons & David Parker - 265-272 Public corporate governance of state-owned enterprises: evidence from the Spanish banking industry
by Tamyko Ysa & Mireia Giné & Marc Esteve & Vicenta Sierra - 273-280 Accruals and ‘accounting numbers management’ in UK executive agencies
by Vicente Pina & María José Arcas & Caridad Martí - 281-288 The challenge of sustaining respect in a central budget agency: what can Ireland learn from New Zealand?
by Joe Wallis & Shaun Goldfinch & Andy Klein - 289-296 Leadership through action learning: a bottom-up approach to ‘best practice’ in ‘infection prevention and control’ in a UK NHS trust
by Jean Kellie & Brian Milsom & Eileen Henderson - 297-302 Co-production in research: some reflections on the experience of engaging practitioners in health research
by Alistair Hewison & Nicola Gale & Jonathan Shapiro - 303-310 State responses to the fiscal crisis: Belgium
by Walter Kickert - 311-314 New development: New global health care PPP developments—a critique of the success story
by Basilio Acerete & Anne Stafford & Pamela Stapleton - 315-319 New development: Making partnerships work—a local politician's guide to leadership
by Lorraine Ford & Mike Green
May 2012, Volume 32, Issue 3
- 159-160 Editorial
by Jane Broadbent & Andrew Massey & Michaela Lavender - 161-163 Debate: Scotland's fiscal options—a response to Midwinter
by Iain Docherty & Ronald MacDonald - 164-165 Debate: Financial panic, economic threat, and sovereign debt crises
by Fred Thompson - 165-167 Debate: Revolutionizing or recycling public procurement policy in the UK?
by J. Gordon Murray - 169-176 How the UK government responded to the fiscal crisis: an outsider's view
by Walter Kickert - 177-184 Evolutionary change? An evaluation of the McNulty report on rail
by Robert Jupe - 185-192 Holding politicians to account? Overview and scrutiny in English local government
by Andrew Coulson & Philip Whiteman - 193-200 Empowerment or abandonment? Prospects for neighbourhood revitalization under the big society
by Jonathan S. Davies & Madeleine Pill - 201-208 Legislating for the big society? The case of the Public Services (Social V alue) Bill
by Simon Teasdale & Pete Alcock & Graham Smith - 209-216 Autonomy and improved performance: lessons from an NHS policy reform
by Paul Anand & Mark Exworthy & Francesca Frosini & Lorelei Jones - 217-224 Service line reporting in a National Health Service foundation trust: an initial assessment of its relevance and applicability
by Donald Harradine & Malcolm Prowle - 225-232 Managing the technical resource capability of cybercrime investigation: a UK law enforcement perspective
by Paul Hunton - 233-236 New development: Spin-outs and social enterprise: the ‘right to request’ programme for health and social care services
by Robin Miller & Ross Millar & Kelly Hall
March 2012, Volume 32, Issue 2
- 83-86 Editorial
by Joyce Liddle & Pete Murphy - 87-94 The political leadership matrix: a tool for analysis
by Howard Elcock & John Fenwick - 95-102 Place matters: but does local leadership?
by James Hunter - 103-110 Local politicians' attitudes towards participatory initiatives: a Bulpittian perspective
by Dave Mckenna - 111-117 An examination, through roles of accounting, of the commissioning of public services from the third sector: the case of a DWP funded initiative
by Don Harradine - 119-126 Budgeting and governing for deficit reduction in the UK public sector: act 2 ‘the annual budget’
by Laurence Ferry & Peter Eckersley - 127-128 Debate: Academia can tax one's patience
by John Seddon - 129-136 Performance auditing—addressing real or perceived expectation gaps in the public sector
by Pat Barrett - 137-144 Internal controls in an international financial institution
by Ian Hume - 145-152 Getting to grips with England's formula for local authority support
by Mervyn Stone - 153-156 New development: Macroeconomic fables
by Sandford Borins
January 2012, Volume 32, Issue 1
- 3-4 Editorial
by Jane Broadbent & Andrew Massey & Michaela Lavender - 5-5 Introduction
by Drew Cullen - 6-8 Debate: Restoring fiscal sanity—a US case study
by David M. Walker - 9-14 Developing a government's balance sheet—does it improve performance?
by Ken Warren - 15-20 The influence of the nature of government accounting and reporting in decision-making: evidence from Switzerland
by Andreas Bergmann - 21-25 Rethinking the relationship between local government and financial markets
by Eugenio Caperchione & Federica Salvatori - 27-34 Restoring credibility in policy-making in Ireland
by John FitzGerald - 35-40 New development: Transparency in the public sector
by Ian Ball - 41-44 New development: PEFA—what difference has it made?
by Peter Boulding & Andrew Mackie & Frans Ronsholt & Stephen Sharples - 45-46 Debate: Accrual accounting: information for accountability or decision usefulness?
by Richard Laughlin - 47-48 Debate: Tsars—are they the ‘experts’ now?
by Ruth Levitt & William Solesbury - 49-52 Fiscal autonomy in Scotland: an assessment and critique
by Arthur Midwinter - 53-60 Implementing IFRSs in the public sector: caveats from a case in the UK
by Ciaran Connolly & Anthony Wall - 61-68 United we stand, divided we fall: the failure of an accounting information system in a major radiology provider
by Jeanette Van Akkeren