Performance or Compliance?: Performance Audit and Public Management in Five Countries - Couverture rigide

Pollitt, Christopher; Girre, Xavier; Lonsdale, Jeremy; Mul, Robert; Summa, Hilkka; Waerness, Marit

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0198296002 ISBN 13 : 9780198296003

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1999

Synopsis

Performance audit, as practised by national audit offices, is a relatively recent and rapidly developing set of activities. Auditors claim to have moved beyond issues of compliance and regularity and to be able directly to investigate the efficiency and effectiveness of public programmes, projects, and institutions.

These are developments with considerable implications for both democratic accountablility and managerial efficiency. Until now they have received little independent scrutiny, but in this book an international team of researchers analyses the growth of performance audit in five countries: France, Finland, The Netherlands, Sweden, and the UK. It is argued that audit offices face a series of strategic choices, and that in different countries they have thus far chosen somewhat different trajectories.

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À propos de l?auteur

Christopher Pollitt is currently Professor of Public Management at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. He has worked as an Assistant Principal and Principal in the UK civil service and as an academic and consultant. He was Professor of Government at Brunel University from 1990-98, President of the European Evaluation Society from 1995-97 and an advisor to the European Commission from 1996.

Xavier Girre is Manager (conseiller) at the Cours des Comptes in Paris. He has been involved in audits of major public firms, diplomatic services, and various bodies in the defence sector. He has previously been an Assistant Professor in Economy at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris.

Jeremy Lonsdale is Audit manager at the National Audit Office, London, working on value for money studies. He is a qualified accountant and formerly worked in the Corporate Policy Unit.

Robert Mul is currently director of an audit unit in Rotterdam. He was formerly the head of the Algem

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0198296002
• ISBN 13: 9780198296003
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 260
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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