.... ‘The future of public administration’ predicts a future with new sets of challenges for the nation-state and its public administration systems. economics global global financial crises public opinion of governments public sector United States of America USA global population population Europe budgetary...

...This chapter begins by reviewing the roles that budgetary control systems take in helping managers assure organizational performance and by considering some of the growing criticisms of their efficacy that have been made in recent years. Two distinct views have been taken about the best way...

... sector accounting is established at almost all political levels and is likely to intensify strict budgetary control in Europe, effectively establishing an ‘austerity infrastructure’. The main actors engaged in bringing about this new regime are state bureaucrats and statisticians as well as accounting...