Performance or Compliance?: Performance Audit and Public Management in Five Countries
Christopher Pollitt, Xavier Girre, Jeremy Lonsdale, Robert Mul, Hilkka Summa, and Marit Waerness
Abstract
Performance audit is now in fashion, but has in the past been a somewhat closed world, little studied by outsiders. Now an international team of researchers has studied the work of five national audit offices – France, Finland, The Netherlands, Sweden, and the UK. The picture thus revealed contains elements of technical innovation, methodological challenge, and crucial strategic choice.
Keywords: performance audit, France, Sweden, Finland, Netherlands, United Kingdom, national audit offices, technical innovation, methodological challenge, strategic choice
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 1999 | Print ISBN-13: 9780198296003 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198296003.001.0001 |
