Research Catalog

Title

Performance or compliance? : performance audit and public management in five countries / Christopher Pollitt [and others].

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

Pollitt, Christopher.

Description

vii, 248 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"In this book an international team of researchers analyses the growth of performance audit in five countries - France, Finland, The Netherlands, Sweden, and the UK. It is argued that audit offices face a series of strategic choices, and that in different countries they have thus far chosen somewhat different trajectories."--Jacket.

Subject

• Administrative agencies > Europe, Western > Management > Auditing
• Executive departments > Europe, Western > Management > Auditing
• 88.15 public services, public enterprises and quasi-public institutions
• Administrative agencies > Management > Auditing
• Verwaltung
• Management Auditing
• Internationaler Vergleich
• Overheidsmanagement
• Prestatiebeoordeling
• Auditing
• Administration publique > Europe de l'Ouest > Vérification comptable
• Ministères > Europe de l'Ouest > Vérification comptable
• Western Europe
• Pays de l'Union européenne > Administration > Évaluation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [236]-244) and index.

Contents

Performance audit and public management reform / Christopher Pollitt and Hilkka Summa -- Definitions and frameworks / Hilkka Summa -- The changing context / Christopher Pollitt -- The management-audit interface / Christopher Pollitt -- The subjects of study / Hilkka Summa -- Criteria / Christopher Pollitt and Robert Mul -- The auditor's craft / Jeremy Lonsdale, Robert Mul, and Christopher Pollitt -- Methods / Jeremy Lonsdale -- Products / Marit Waerness -- Impacts / Jeremy Lonsdale -- Overview / Christopher Pollitt.

ISBN

• 0198296002
• 9780198296003

LCCN

99025365

OCLC

• ocm41017537
• 41017537
• SCSB-1123463

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library