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Public Accounts Committees, New Public Management, and Institutionalism: A Case Study

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Jones, Kathleen
Jacobs, Kerry

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The rise of New Public Management is often seen as undermining traditional systems of parliamentary financial oversight. One of the most prevalent of such systems is the public accounts committee, found in most Westminster parliamentary systems. We examine the experience of such a committee, the Public Accounts and Estimates Committee in the State of Victoria, Australia, at a time when a reforming state government implemented wide-ranging reforms based on the principles of new public management. We argue that the strength of the committee can be understood by using a historical institutionalism perspective.El ascenso de lo que ha venido a llamarse la Nueva Gerencia Pública es a menudo visto como algo que subvierte el control financiero en sistemas parlamentarios tradicionales. Uno de los más frecuentes en dichos sistemas es el Comité de Cuentas Públicas, encontrado en la mayoría de los sistemas parlamentarios Westminster. Estudiamos la experiencia de tal tipo de comité, el Comité de Cuentas Públicas y Presupuesto del estado de Victoria, Australia, a tiempo que un gobierno reformista en turno implementó diversas medidas basadas en los principios de la nueva gerencia pública. Argumentamos que la fuerza de tal tipo de comités puede ser comprendida desde una perspectiva histórica institucionalista.

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