This article analyses the use of the internet to communicate performance information by large cities in France, Italy and Spain (Barcelona, Marseilles and Milan). The internet has a major role to play in improving accountability and responsiveness to citizens. The authors recommend that the...

Purpose: Acknowledging fiscal crises as critical junctures for policy makers, this paper investigates how the recent fiscal crisis has affected the paradigmatic approach to the design of an ongoing governmental accounting (GA) reform. Design/methodology/approach: This paper analyses the Italian...

<title>Abstract</title> This article investigates the contribution of public administration (PA) reforms to sustainable development, with particular reference to countries in transition. The case study of Albania is analysed with a specific focus on the scope, contents and sequence of reforms as well as on the...