Government and governance: The value of project management in the public sector

Governance is an emerging theme that has been associated in the public sector with a real political need to satisfy stakeholders by demonstrating accountability and transparency while effectively implementing policy. Many initiatives relating to governance are generated by a need for improvement of organizational performance and ability to implement and adapt to change. These generally take the form of projects and programs encouraging a variety of project management implementations in the public sector. This article reports on examination of the expectations and realization of value from investment in project management in four Australian public‐sector organizations with particular reference to the government context, the perspective of public value management (PVM), and the support that project management provides in meeting the demands of public‐sector governance.     

国家审计在腐败治理系统框架中的功能——以匈牙利为例

国家治理是一个有机的系统。国家审计作为该系统中的重要组成要素发挥着特殊的功能。腐败是滥用公共权力侵占公共资源为个人谋取私利的行为。作为国家治理的主要内容,腐败治理离不开国家审计。以匈牙利构建其国家腐败治理系统的框架为例,分析国家审计在其中的功能定位、作用原理以及具体表现,能为我国国家审计在国家治理中充分发挥腐败治理的功能提供有价值的启示和建议。     

政府审计与腐败治理——基于协同视角的理论分析与经验数据

基于协同学理论,以审计结果利用为导向,梳理政府审计与腐败治理之间的逻辑关系,并以2008—2013年度省级审计机关经验数据进行实证检验。研究发现,政府审计机关与审计客体在腐败治理过程中发挥着积极的协同作用,即政府审计机关与审计客体的协同水平越高,腐败治理功能发挥的越好;政府信息公开化建设在该协同治理机制中起着中介作用,即政府审计推进腐败治理功能发挥,可以进一步通过完善政府信息公开制度建设实现。通过理论与经验分析,揭示了政府审计与腐败治理之间更深层次的协同逻辑,为政府审计推进反腐倡廉工作提供可借鉴的理论和实践参考。     

国家审计治理有助于补齐公共服务供给短板吗？

利用动态空间杜宾模型探讨了国家审计治理对地方公共服务供给的影响及其空间效应。结果显示,国家审计治理不仅在短期和长期有助于提高本市公共服务供给水平,而且能够缩小本市与高公共服务供给城市的公共服务供给缺口,且长期效应大于短期;但国家审计治理能力提升对周边城市公共服务供给水平和供给缺口却产生了显著为负的空间外溢效应。进一步研究发现,国家审计有助于提高本市及周边城市教育类和交通运输类公共服务的供给水平;而对于医疗卫生类和环境保护类公共服务来说,国家审计尽管有效降低了本市供给缺口,但却对周边城市产生了放大效应;国家审计治理有助于缩小本市能源资源基础设施类公共服务的供给缺口,但未对周边城市产生明显外溢效应。与省际城市间公共服务供给相比,国家审计治理功能的充分发挥对同一省份内部城市间公共服务供给缺口具有更大的影响效果以及更强的空间外溢效应。     

Accountability – are We Better off Without It?

Abstract

Public managers increasingly lament about negative effects of accountability. Despite these reports and the importance of accountability in public organizations, it is yet unknown when it has positive or negative effects on managers. Overcoming two major obstacles in accountability research, this study therefore investigates ‘how accountability affects public manager's work behaviour’. Firstly, this study applies a cognitive theory offering a promising way out of the current theoretical dead-end. Secondly, the quasi-experimental research design makes the complex concept of accountability more tangible and findings transferable to practice. Moreover, individual level characteristics such as motivation are used to investigate a potential interaction between contingency and individual level characteristics. Results indicate both positive and negative effects of accountability on work behaviour and hence strongly challenge the positive normative connotation of accountability.     

公众参与对政府审计腐败治理效果的影响研究——基于国家治理视角的实证分析

十九大报告中提出打造共建共治共享的社会治理格局,其中公众参与是重要的组成部分。事实上,我国政府一直以来都在强调公众参与在社会主义民主政治体系中的作用,尤其在反腐败以及国家监督领域。基于此,选择国家监督体系中的政府审计对腐败的治理作为研究情境,以验证现阶段公众参与在其中的作用。实证检验结果发现：相对于公众参与程度低的地区,在公众参与程度高的地区,政府审计的预防功能和抵御功能能够更好地发挥腐败治理作用,而政府审计揭示功能对腐败的治理作用在两组之间并无区别。     

Governance and the Policy Process In Contemporary Europe

Diverse recent literatures on ‘the hollow state’. ‘deliberative democracy’ and ‘governing without government’ are largely concerned with the workings of politics and public management under socio-political conditions of indeterminancy and fragmentation that are variously described as characteristics of high or late modernity (Giddens 1991) or, as some prefer to put it, of post-modernity (Fox and Miller 1995). This article, which reflects the author's interest in interdisciplinary forms of post-postmodern analysis that draw upon political science and sociology and social theory as well as administrative studies, examines a number of conceptual and empirical topics that, it is argued, are relevant to exploration of the thesis that postnational social milieux are steered via new forms of societal-cum-political governance that have largely replaced governmental institutions and processes of the kind associated with classical notions of the state, public administration and liberal democracy.     

国家审计与国家监察服务腐败治理的路径探索——基于协同视角的思考

随着国家监察体制改革的全面推进,国家监督系统焕发新的生机。国家审计与国家监察作为国家监督系统的重要组成部分,理应充分发挥监督职能以保证国家可持续发展。从国家监察体制改革特点入手,基于受托经济责任观,全面分析国家审计及国家监察分别与腐败治理的相关关系,并以腐败治理为核心,从战略层面、管理层面和结果层面三个层面探求国家审计与国家监察的耦合路径,使两者通过有效耦合路径将监督协同效应发挥到极致,进而保证政府公共受托经济责任全面有效地履行。     

公共部门人力资源管理实践与探讨

人力资源管理就是对社会人力资源的管理,是政府的一项重要管理职能,它立足于社会经济发展的总体规划,保证人力资源整体结构的适应性与合理性。文中论述了公共部门人力资源管理的内涵及特性、内在运行机制,提出了进一步完善公共部门人力资源管理的措施。     

Accountability and performance management: citizens’ willingness to monitor public officials

ABSTRACT

In recent decades, the operating mechanisms of states and societies have transformed from traditional hierarchical relationships into a more horizontal structure. In this new setting, citizens may have a critical role in monitoring public accountability. This article explores citizens’ willingness to monitor public officials’ accountability and the factors that may influence it. Using a survey distributed in Israel in 2016, the analysis indicates that citizens view these interactions in terms of collective action problems aimed at minimizing freeriding. Government policy in these areas is irrelevant to citizens’ calculations.     

Application of International Public Sector Accounting Standards in Vietnam in Current Conditions

The objective of improving the state accounting system is to build a state accounting system based on a single and complete database which is applied uniformly across all public authorities and agencies from central to local. Such an accounting system must ensure a reliable and smooth flow of information among all the entities that take part in the preparation, allocation, execution, and finalization of the state budget. In order to improve the quality of financial information, to harmonize, and to develop accounting profession globally, the trend of international economic integration requires the standardization of accounting legislative framework among countries and first of all, the harmonization and unification of the preparation, presentation, and disclosure of financial information. Financial statements of each business in the private sector and financial statements of the government in the public sector in different countries should be transparent and presented in accordance with the accounting standards and principles and in line with international practices so that the financial information will be able to be compared and evaluated. Therefore, financial statements of each entity in the public sector and the consolidated financial statements of public sector entities issued by the government in different countries must be prepared and presented in a unified form to suit the international public sector accounting standards. Accordingly, with the application of the interview method in research, the main objective of this article is to focus on searching for the bases and consideration for the application of international public sector accounting standards in Vietnam in current conditions. This article consists of eight sections： （1） what are international public sector accounting standards？ （2） accounting entities of the public sector; （3） the limitations of current public sector accounting in Vietnam; （4） financial information to meet the requirements of state management and to comply with international practices; （5） the advantages of applying international public sector accounting standards in Vietnam; （6） the difficulties and challenges of applying international public sector accounting standards in Vietnam; （7） learning experiences from other countries; and （8） conclusion.