Open budgets
Subtitle: the political economy of transparency, participation, and accountability
By: Sanjeev Khagram, Archon Fung, Paolo de Renzio, editors
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press/Ash Center; Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780815723370
Subjects: Transparency in government; Public Finance; Budget; Government accountability
Description: Decisions about "who gets what, when, and how" are perhaps the most important that any government must make. So it should not be remarkable that around the world, public officials responsible for public budgeting are facing demands -- from their own citizenry, other government officials, economic actors, and increasingly from international sources -- to make their patterns of spending more transparent and their processes more participatory. Surprisingly, rigorous analysis of the causes and consequences of fiscal transparency is thin at best. This book seeks to fill this gap in existing knowledge by answering a few broad questions: How and why do improvements in fiscal transparency and participation come about? How are they sustained over time? When and how do increased fiscal transparency and participation lead to improved government responsiveness and accountability?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Overview and synthesis.; title: The political economy of fiscal transparency, participation, and accountability around the world  -- Sanjeev Khagram, Paolo de Renzio, and Archon Fung; title: What we know can't hurt them : origins, sources of sustenance, and survival prospects of budget transparency in South Africa  -- Steven Friedman; title: Accountability from the top down? : Brazil's advances in budget accountability despite a lack of popular mobilization  -- Jorge Antonio Alves and Patrick Heller; title: A mutually reinforcing loop : budget transparency and participation in South Korea  -- Jong-sung You and Wonhee Lee; title: Budget transparency and accountability in Mexico : high hopes, low performance  -- John M. Ackerman; title: Guatemala : limited advances within advancing limits  -- Aaron Schneider and Annabella España-Najéra; title: The limits of top-down reform : budget transparency in Tanzania  -- Barak D. Hoffman; title: The diversification of state power : Vietnam's alternative path toward budget transparency, accountability, and participation  -- Jonathan Warren and Huong Nguyen; title: Capturing movement at the margins : Senegal's efforts at budget transparency reform -- Linda Beck, E.H. Seydou Nourou Toure, and Aliou Faye.