IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-1-137-31530-4_7.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Role of the Legislature in Budget Processes

In: The International Handbook of Public Financial Management

Author

Listed:
  • Ian Lienert

Abstract

The legislature plays an important role in shaping the annual budget and in providing budgetary oversight. When fiscal policies and medium-term budgetary objectives are debated in parliament and annual budget laws are adopted by the legislature, budget strategies and policies are “owned” by the elected representatives. If the legislature is bypassed or is inactive in budget decision making, fiscal policies are decided by government politicians on the advice of unelected officials. In the absence of strong accountability arrangements on the government, there is a risk that budgetary policies reflect the wishes of unelected elites. In summary, the active engagement of parliament in the budget process is usually considered to be an essential part of democracy.

Suggested Citation

  • Ian Lienert, 2013. "Role of the Legislature in Budget Processes," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Richard Allen & Richard Hemming & Barry H. Potter (ed.), The International Handbook of Public Financial Management, chapter 6, pages 116-136, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-31530-4_7
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137315304_7
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Afrah Junita & Erlina & Erwin Abubakar & Syukriy Abdullah, 2018. "The Effect of Budget Variances on the Local Government Budget Changes with Legislature Size as Moderator," Academic Journal of Economic Studies, Faculty of Finance, Banking and Accountancy Bucharest,"Dimitrie Cantemir" Christian University Bucharest, vol. 4(1), pages 162-173, March.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-31530-4_7. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.