Public Value Theory and Budgeting: International Perspectives

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
About the author
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1. Introduction
	A portrait of public value
	What is a budgeting lens?
	Tools for budget analysis
	The three-fold aims of this book
	The structure of this book
Part I: Extending public value to new contexts
	2. Public value, civil society and developing countries
		Introduction: value for and from the citizen
		Revisiting civil society in public value theory
		Why citizens budgets as a lens?
		The South African citizens’ budget
		Conclusion: theorizing civil society in public value
	3. Supranational entities and defining the “public” in public value”
		Introduction: e pluribus unum?
		Defining the “public” in public value
		The problems of a supranational “public”
			1 Incentivization problems
			2 Imbalances between national publics
			3 Surrendering tools to supranational public managers
			4 Loss of trust
		Testing for supranational public value
		Conclusion: seeking a composite public
	4. Public value in post-communist societies
		Introduction: The horizon of transitions
		Assumptions underpinning public value
		Post-communist limitations
		Common threads
		Budget transparency in a post-communist context
		Evaluating budget transparency
		Conclusion: beyond “odious” elements
Part II: Challenges in public value creation
	5. Public value and illiberal democracy
		Introduction: the illiberal persuasion
		The illiberal democracy
			1 Venezuela
			2 Hungary
		Public value challenges in illiberal democracies
		Conclusion: illiberal arbiters
	6. Public value between nations
		Introduction: shared values, different administrations
		Is public value a domestic theory?
		What values underlie OBOR?
		Bilateral value creation
		Conclusion: Silk Road and Milky Way
	7. Public value and the post-truth era
		Introduction: the post-truth zeitgeist
		The problem of the public manager in the post-truth era
		The Congressional Budget Office and the American Health Care Act
		The salience of public value in a post-truth world
		Conclusion: the re-legitimization of public managers
	8. Conclusion
		A threefold approach
			New contexts
			Budgeting as a public value lens
			Grappling with public value challenges
		The wider world of value creation
		Reciprocity, limitations, and future research
Index