Nonpartisan Legislative Budget Offices
A Tentative Step toward Improving Legislative Oversight
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6263715 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeffrey D Straussman (0000-0002-7832-5417, University at Albany, State University of New York), Ari Renoni (University at Albany, State University of New York) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 167-173 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Governance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0952-1895 • E-ISSN: 1468-0491 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-0491.2010.01515.x |
| OpenAlex | W1480051128 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 3 |
Strengthening the budgetary powers of legislatures through nonpartisan budget offices adds to the capacity-building repertoire of development donors. Budget offices are supposed to provide legislatures with information and analysis independent from the executive. The United States Agency for International Development believes that strengthening the legislature's power of the purse improves governance. We highlight USAID-funded legislative strengthening projects implemented in Jordan, Kenya, Morocco, and Afghanistan to show how these budget offices function. There is a significant potential for these units to assist members of parliament in understanding the budget process, the broad fiscal challenges facing government, and expenditure control and budgetary trade-offs that affect present and future spending. These cases demonstrate the challenges of creating and sustaining a parliamentary budget office. Finally, in an effort to make budget offices effective and sustainable, we outline several key steps that we believe are important both for donors and the legislative bodies
Agency (philosophy · Budget process · Business · Government (linguistics · Legislature · Parliament · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Corruption and Economic Development · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Law · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Public Administration
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| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2023 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |