Globalization has been challenging the theory and practice of Public Administration at an unprecedented level. Major policy issues cross national boundaries cannot be solved without international collaboration - even domestic issues will be better understood and addressed with a global...

This article examines the development of public budgeting since the Industrial Revolution to offer an explanatory framework on budgeting as a governance instrument. The article proposes that budgeting has evolved as innovations in financial administration to respond to socio-economic challenges...

This article divides the era of performance-based budgeting (PBB) into three periods: rise and development in the 1990s, continuation and peak in the 2000s and level-off afterwards. The article examines the performance of PBB on four aspects: development of performance measures, its use in...