Improving the Budget Process in Fragile and Conflict‐Ridden States
Two Modest Lessons from Afghanistan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6361859 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David E Guinn (0000-0003-4673-5750, University at Albany, State University of New York), Jeffrey D Straussman (0000-0002-7832-5417, University at Albany, State University of New York) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 263-272 |
| Publication date | 2015-06-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Public Administration Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-3352 • E-ISSN: 1540-6210 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/puar.12397 |
| OpenAlex | W1590193548 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 22 |
Both the donor community and scholars have created a cottage industry studying “fragile” states. International nongovernmental organizations that have developed indexes measuring corruption or governance have been unkind to Afghanistan. One index suggests a different and more optimistic story. The International Budget Partnership measures transparency every two years with its Open Budget Index. Afghanistan demonstrated dramatic improvement on this index between 2008 and 2012. The authors use the improvement in Afghanistan's transparency score as an entry point to explore how donors try to intervene and promote transparency as part of broader efforts in public financial management development and how legislative strengthening has also contributed to budget reform. The analysis offers a modest corrective to the overly pessimistic assessments of fragile states by showing that a fragile state can improve its budgetary transparency and enhance governance by strengthening the legislature's involvement in the budget process
Accountability · Budget process · Business · Corporate governance · Economics · General partnership · Good governance · Index (typography · Language change · Legislature · Political science · Politics · Public economics · State (computer science · Transparency (behavior · Accounting · Corruption and Economic Development · Finance · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Public Administration
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0.22 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2018 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |