Download or read book Outsourcing Government written by Paula Clancy and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This research from TASC looks at untangling the "fog index" that exists around how Government works. TASC authors Paula Clancy and Grainne Murphy identify important issues of transparency, accountability and freedom from political/elite patronage."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Outsourcing US Intelligence written by Damien Van Puyvelde and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 21st century, more than any other time, US agencies have relied on contractors to conduct core intelligence functions. This book charts the swell of intelligence outsourcing in the context of American political culture and considers what this means for the relationship between the state, its national security apparatus and accountability within a liberal democracy. Through analysis of a series of case studies, recently declassified documents and exclusive interviews with national security experts in the public and private sectors, the book provides an in-depth and illuminating appraisal of the evolving accountability regime for intelligence contractors.
Download or read book Government by Contract written by Jody Freeman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-28 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic growth of government over the course of the twentieth century since the New Deal prompts concern among libertarians and conservatives and also among those who worry about government’s costs, efficiency, and quality of service. These concerns, combined with rising confidence in private markets, motivate the widespread shift of federal and state government work to private organizations. This shift typically alters only who performs the work, not who pays or is ultimately responsible for it. “Government by contract” now includes military intelligence, environmental monitoring, prison management, and interrogation of terrorism suspects. Outsourcing government work raises questions of accountability. What role should costs, quality, and democratic oversight play in contracting out government work? What tools do citizens and consumers need to evaluate the effectiveness of government contracts? How can the work be structured for optimal performance as well as compliance with public values? Government by Contract explains the phenomenon and scope of government outsourcing and sets an agenda for future research attentive to workforce capacities as well as legal, economic, and political concerns.
Download or read book Contracts Performance Measurements and Accountability in the Public Sector written by Gavin Drewry and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses issues to do with public accountability, audit and performance measurement that are both highly topical and of crucial importance to the theory and practice of public administration in an era of contractualized public management. The literature on public sector contracting - covering both 'hard' agreements (ones that are legally enforceable) and 'soft' agreements (enforced by negotiation and mutual trust) - has been growing for some time and the present book adds a primarily European perspective on contracting, performance-based management and accountability. One important aspect of this study is its recognition that those responsible for monitoring public services, and holding them to account, have had - to an increasing extent - to reconcile tensions between, on the one hand, the need for strong oversight and, on the other, the encouragement of innovation and risk in an increasingly competitive and entrepreneurial public service culture. Following an introductory overview by the three editors the book is in three parts.The first part deals with the theory and practice of performance measurement and evaluation; the second part provides a series of specific case studies of audit and accountability in a variety of countries and contexts; the third part offers some wider, cross-cutting perspectives. Based on the work of the EGPA permanent study group on the history of contractualization, Contracts, Performance Measurement and Accountability in the Public Sector draws upon the wide expertise and research interests of academics and practitioners from the United Kingdom, Denmark, Switzerland, Belgium, Sweden and the USA.
Download or read book Outsourcing in the UK written by Morphet, Janice and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive account, Janice Morphet analyses the role and use of outsourcing within the UK public sector since the mid-1970s. Morphet examines the many drivers for the use of outsourcing in the public sector, including international agreements, new public management, performativity and austerity. She also takes in to account the role and failures of the private sector and its response to the opening up of public sector competition. By investigating the way that outsourcing has been used in different service sectors and across scales, the book illustrates the impact it has had on ideology, policy narratives and public expectations in the present.
Download or read book Information Systems and Public Sector Accountability written by R. Heeks and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Modernization and Accountability in Public Sector Management written by Graça Maria do Carmo Azevedo and published by Information Science Reference. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book disseminates methodologies that would allow public institutions to implement practices, consistent with values of ethics, rigor, transparency and accountability to promote accountable public sector managers and discusses the processes of control and risk management and stress their importance for the reliability of financial reporting"--
Download or read book Public Accountability written by Melvin J. Dubnick and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Democratic Accountability for Outsourced Government Services written by Rebecca L. Keeler and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public administration scholars have raised serious concerns about loss of democratic accountability when government services are outsourced to private forprofit businesses because of the very different values and missions of the two sectors. Particular concern for democratic accountability arises when administrative discretion is delegated to governments' private sector agents. Furthermore, if contractors may adversely impact individual rights or interests, or may adversely impact vulnerable populations, special democratic responsibilities arise. It is these three features of outsourcing transactions that constitute the elements of the proposed framework used in this research in order to assess need for heightened attention to democratic accountability. Some scholars argue for application of constitutional and administrative law norms to some government contractors. Public service ethics and transparency requirements found in administrative law are heavily value-laden and mission-driven. If applied to certain government contractors, they can help to bridge the sectors' mission and value differences, thus enhancing democratic accountability for the services performed by governments' private sector agents. This research offers an analytical framework for identifying features of outsourcing transactions that call for enhanced democratic accountability measures such as ethics and transparency requirements, and explores the application of ethics and transparency requirements to governments' contractors. Contracts and laws governing three Florida local government service categories were subjected to close systematic textual and legal analysis: residential trash collection, building code inspection, and inmate health care. The analysis revealed circumstances calling for greater attention to democratic accountability in that the selected outsourcing transactions delegated to contractors the authority to exercise police power, make public policy, and commit expenditures of public funds. Contracts and laws haphazardly required contractors to abide by public service ethics and transparency requirements, thus beginning to adapt the mission and value system of their private sector agents to those of government.
Download or read book Towards a New Model of Control in Outsourcing and Accreditation of Public Service Providing Efficiency and Accountability written by Claudio Travaglini and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public accreditation certification of private institutions and differentiation of institutional forms of public bodies providing public services determines a convergence between public and private nonprofit providing of social, educational and health services in Italy. A new paradigm and the need for new tools of governance and regulation. In Italy system of public welfare and provision of social, health and educational services has developed in the past fundamental as an expression of the central and local government, regulated, financed and managed by the public administration. On the other side private, religious, nonprofit institutions providing same services that were not included in public system had maintained a wide autonomy in organizing services, but suffering for the absence of a strong financial support. In recent years, we can see a gradual process of contracting out before, and then public-private partnership, and now of general accreditation and public financing of private institutions providing public services. On the other side and in the same period the increasing strategic and financial autonomy of public institutions and their search of financial resources are leading public administrations to a different frame of reference and to the adoption to private (profit and nonprofit) models in managing public services by public bodies. So private bodies (profit entities, cooperatives and nonprofit) reduce their differentiation and autonomy to conform to accreditation organizational standards defined by public authorities to gain full public financing and to cover their costs with public tariffs under the 'accreditation' framework regulation. By contrast, in the meanwhile, public bodies, in search of new opportunities and new funding, tend to adopt private law models (before as public private partnership or for profit company and now as nonprofit public benefit organization) to adopt models more efficient. So public and private bodies provide same services, to same people, with same public money, with very different governance and accountability regulations. This path suggest us to affirm a new concept of 'public service' objective and not subjective, and to identify unified forms of regulation and transparency for it. In particular to public services managed by private operators with public funding should be requested more transparency and a mandatory formalized social control, while to the public bodies should be requested a greater responsibility and economic competitiveness with private entities that have the same standard of service. Only in this way the accreditation could be a fruitful revolution in competition in providing public service.
Download or read book Accountability in Government Departments Public Corporations and Public Companies An Introduction Edited by R W Ennis written by Rex Warren Ennis and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Public Governance written by Stephen P. Osborne and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2010 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a comprehensive analysis of public management. This title examines, opens up and frames the debate in this important area.
Download or read book Information Systems and Public Sector Accountability written by R. Heeks and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Outsourcing Sovereignty written by Paul R. Verkuil and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-19 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reliance on the private military industry and the privatization of public functions has left our government less able to govern effectively. When decisions that should have been taken by government officials are delegated (wholly or in part) to private contractors without appropriate oversight, the public interest is jeopardized. Books on private military have described the problem well, but they have not offered prescriptions or solutions this book does.
Download or read book In This Issue Revenue Spending Open Accountable Government written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outsourcing Public Jobs Undermines the Middle Class by Scott Klinger An excellent new study by In the Public Interest, Race to the Bottom: How Outsourcing Public Services Rewards Corporations and Punishes the Middle Class, makes the important connections between outsourcing public services and public-sector jobs, the shrinking of the American middle class, and the increase in economic inequality i. [...] This undermines the middle class and widens the divide between the wealthy and the rest of us. [...] Among the items that In the Public Interest encourages policymakers to focus on are: the impact on wages of affected workers, requirements that contractor employees live in the community, and the expected impacts on social service and public assistance programs. [...] The report, required under the Regulatory Right-to-Know Act, summarizes the benefits and costs of major federal rules - those anticipated to have an annual economic impact of $100 million or more and subject to review by the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) at OMB - for the 2013 fiscal year, as well as for the previous decade. [...] - 7 - In the chart above, the solid red and blue bars represent the midpoints of the ranges of costs and benefits of rules.
Download or read book Managing Public Money written by Great Britain. Treasury and published by Stationery Office Books (TSO). This book was released on 2007 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dated October 2007. The publication is effective from October 2007, when it replaces "Government accounting". Annexes to this document may be viewed at www.hm-treasury.gov.uk
Download or read book Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-03-24 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policymakers and program managers are continually seeking ways to improve accountability in achieving an entity's mission. A key factor in improving accountability in achieving an entity's mission is to implement an effective internal control system. An effective internal control system helps an entity adapt to shifting environments, evolving demands, changing risks, and new priorities. As programs change and entities strive to improve operational processes and implement new technology, management continually evaluates its internal control system so that it is effective and updated when necessary. Section 3512 (c) and (d) of Title 31 of the United States Code (commonly known as the Federal Managers? Financial Integrity Act (FMFIA)) requires the Comptroller General to issue standards for internal control in the federal government.
