The reality of budgetary reform in AECD nations/ Edited by John Wanna, Lotte Jensen, Jouke de Vries

Contents:1. Investigating the Reality of Reform in Modern BudgetingJohn Wanna2. Budget Reforms in the United States: A `Perfect Storm' for a New Wave of Deficit-Reduction ReformsAlfred Tat-Kei Ho3. Budget Reform in the United Kingdom: The Rocky Road to `Controlled Discretion'Colin Thain4. Australia After Budgetary Reform: A Lapsed Pioneer or Decorative Architect?Lewis Hawke and John Wanna5. Discerning the Consequences and Integrity of Canada's Budget Reforms: A Story of Remnants and ResilienceDavid A. Good and Evert A. Lindquist6. Budgeting in New Zealand After the Reforms: From Radical Revolutionary to Cautious ConsolidatorRichard Norman and Derek Gill7. Budget Reform in Japan: Continuous Efforts but Still a Long Way to GoMasahiro Horie8. Korea's Four Major Budgetary Reforms: Catching up with a Big BangJohn M. Kim9. Budget Reforms in Denmark: Unheralded but Nevertheless EffectiveLotte Jensen and David Fjord10. Budget Reform in The Netherlands: Sadder but Much Wiser NowJouke de Vries and Ton Bestebreur11. Budget Reforms in Spain: Anything Else Beyond Budget Discipline?Xavier Ballart and Eduardo Zapico12. Budget Reform in Italy: Importing `Enlightened' Ideas in a Difficult ContextFrancesco Stolfi, Chiara Goretti and Luca Rizzuto13. The Work in Progress of Budgetary ReformJohn WannaIndex