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International perspectives on the role of the legislature in public financial oversight
Associate Professor Joanne KellyAustralia & New Zealand School of Government
12 April 2013
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• Discuss international perspectives on the role of legislature in public financial oversight (budgeting)...
• Understand the possible scope of that role – and the limitations imposed by current practices and system
• Use as the basis for assessing possible reforms and changes to that role being discussed here.
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Why do governments budget?
Planning&
Accountability
Accounting & Controlling
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Foundation of the democratic compact
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Compact between the rulers and the ruled
Relationship between the executive and the legislature
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Posner P & Park C K (2007 ), Role of legislature in public budgeting OECD Journal of Budgeting
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S81: Consolidated Revenue Fund:
All revenues raised…. shall form one Consolidated Revenue Fund….
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S.83: Money to be Appropriated by Law:
No money shall be drawn from the Treasury…except under
appropriation made by law.
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Posner P & Park C K (2007 ), Role of legislature in public budgeting OECD Journal of Budgeting
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Translate public resources into human activities…
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…a government’s resources are limited;
its ambitions seldom are.
Weller & Cutt 1976:1
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Private sector allocates resources through the market
Public sector allocations resources through the budget process
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…to govern is to choose…
….the annual budget expresses most clearly the government’s priorities
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So, the key questions in understanding a budgetary system are this:
who are the key players in budgeting? where lies the power to choose? what limitations are placed on that power?
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Two key players in public budgeting...
Executive Legislature
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Traditional budgetary relationship in Westminster system
Executive:Ministers
individually & collectively
Public Service CBO & line agencies
Seeks approval for spending via Appropriation Bills Legislature
: Members of legislature;
Committee/s; Supreme Audit
Office;
Gives approval for Spending via Appropriation Act
Is held to account for spending (by providing reports on actual spending as requested by legislature;
answering questions)
Holds to account by requesting reports on spending, examining reports, asking questions, verifying content
of reports, undertaking reviews and inquiries
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Westminster
Executive
Legislature
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PresidentialExecutive
Legislature
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Traditional budgetary relationship in Presidential system
Executive:Ministers
individually & collectively
Public Service CBO & line agencies
Seeks approval for spending via Appropriation Bills Legislature
: Members of legislature;
Committee/s; Supreme Audit
Office;
Develops and approval Spending bills via Appropriation Act
Is held to account for spending (by providing reports on actual spending as requested by legislature;
answering questions)
Holds to account by requesting reports on spending, examining reports, asking questions, verifying content
of reports, undertaking reviews and inquiries
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Scoping the role of legislatures in public budgeting
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Sovereign?
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Reforming the role of legislature in PFO: the case of the PBO
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IMF advice
OECD finding
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R4: Establish Independent Fiscal Forecasting institutions
• Aim to strengthen, disclose and verify the information base to enhance the role of legislatures in budgetary and financial oversight.
• Description of tasks: – Medium term fiscal and budgetary forecasting– Costing: new policy initiatives or reform options, electoral platform;– Independent policy analysis;
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Netherlands Central
Planning Bureau (1945)
US Congression
al Budget Office (1975)
Sweden Fiscal Policy
Council (2007)
United Kingdom Office for
Budget Responsibilit
y (2010)
CanadaParliamentary Budget Office
(2011)
Australia Parliamentary Budget Office
(2011)
Agency ofMinistry of Economic Affairs
Congress Ministry of Finance
Ministry of the Treasury Parliament
Short and medium term macro-economic forecasting
Yes,unique Yes
No, only scrutiny
Yes,(in principle) unique
No
Long term macro-economic forecasting
Yesunique Yes
No, only scrutiny
Yes,unique No
Costing Yes,unique Yes
NoNo, only scrutiny
Yes, but not leading to duplication
Costing of electoral platforms
Yes,unique Yes
No No
Yes, but not leading to duplication
Monitoring of fiscal policy against rules and objectives
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Policy research on own initiative
Yes YesYes
Yes Yes
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• WRITE THIS UP ON BUTCHERS PAPER OR JUST REPORT BACK TO THE GROUP AS BASIS OF DISCUSSION
– What is the impact of PBO on the role of legislature in public financial oversight?
– Draw conclusion from the perspective of your current system...
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who are the key players in budgeting? where lies the power to choose? what limitations are placed on that power?
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Does
stronger =
better?
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Understanding the budget game
A simplified model of budget roles & actors...
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Two key role in budgeting...
Guardians Spenders
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guardians of the public purse
advocates of public expenditures
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The Guardians
Seek to keep expenditures within hailing distance of revenues….
1. Control the aggregates
2. Allocative efficiency
3. Operational efficiency
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The Spenders
…seek to protect and expand their resource base to advance policy and program aims…
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Guardians or
spenders??
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Aggregates Allocation Efficiency
Guardians
Spenders
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Spenders and Guardians each employ strategies, practices and processes
to further their objectives in budgetary negotiations, and these
‘techniques of competition’ are knowable.…
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…spenders can push because the guardians push back….
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…the complexity of budget decision-making requires areas of stability
and techniques of conflict limitation or confinement.
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