Fiscal Governance
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fiscal governance
public sector financial management
budgeting
financial regulation
Overview
The group studies the developments of fiscalgovernance in Europe with specific focus on thespread of new budgeting principles (participatory budgeting), the impact of fiscal crisis, theevolution of institutional and discursive context.The unique specialization of the group has beento study the impact of fiscal and financial policybureaucracies (its structure, principles of policycoordination and learning, etc.) on fiscal andfinancial policies in the Baltic Sea area and EUas a whole. This is a relatively novel theoreticalas well as empirical focus since the countries ofthe region are financially and politically highlyinterlinked but have also asymmetrical economicrelations and politico-administrative differences.The group is relatively young (Prof. Raudla waselected full professor only in 2014), but it hasalready gained global recognition for its researchwork, e.g. Prof. Raudla is in the editorial board ofGovernance (the leading journal on governanceand institutional analysis), in addition to sevenother international academic journals. She leadsthe Permanent Working Group on Fiscal Governance and Administration at IIAS (a governanceand public administration research society withthe widest reach globally).The key focus of the group was on the implementing of the research project “Experimentalapproaches and institutional innovations in thedomains of fiscal and financial policy” (PRG1125,funded by the Estonian Research Council). Theresearch group participates actively in JeanMonnet Network project VISTA, which dealswith the challenges in European integration.
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- Raudla, R., Douglas, J. W., Windett, J. H. Comparative analysis of financial bureaucracies of Europe : the influence of policy sector vs administrative tradition on the attitudes of finance officials // Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, Research and Practice (2021) vol. 23, 4, p. 393-415.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13876988.2020.1820867 - Raudla, R., Douglas, J.W., Mohr, Z. Exploration of the technocratic mentality among European civil servants // International review of administrative sciences (2022) vol. 88, 4, p. 1013–1031.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0020852321996421 - Raudla, R., Douglas, J. W. Austerity and budget execution : control versus flexibility // Journal of public budgeting accounting & financial management (2022) vol. 34, 2, p. 292-309.
https://doi.org/10.1108/JPBAFM-01-2021-0018 - Mohr, Z.T., Raudla, R., Douglas, J.W. Comparing cost accounting use across European Countries : The role of administrative traditions, NPM instruments, and fiscal stress // Public administration review (2021) vol. 81, 2, p. 299-307.
https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13162 - Raudla, R., Douglas, J.W. Structural budget balance as a fiscal rule in the European Union - good, bad, or ugly? // Public budgeting & finance (2021) spring, p. 122-141.
https://doi.org/10.1111/pbaf.12279 - Raudla, R. Politicians’ use of performance information in the budget process // Public money & management (2022) vol. 42, 3, p. 144-151.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2021.1989779 - Raudla, R., Douglas, J. W. Fiscal councils as watchdogs - how loud do they bark? // Public money & management (2022) vol. 42, 4, p. 241-250.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2020.1795998 - Raudla, R., Douglas, J.W. This time was different: the budgetary responses to the pandemic-induced crisis in Estonia // Journal of public budgeting accounting & financial management (2020) vol. 32, 5, p. 847-854.
https://doi.org/10.1108/JPBAFM-07-2020-0094 - Raudla, R. Estonian response to COVID-19 pandemic: advantages of smallness, learning and cooperation? // Brazilian journal of public administration, Revista de Administracao Publica (2021) vol. 55, 1, 14 p.
https://doi.org/10.1590/0034-761220200414 - Douglas, J.W., Raudla, R. What Is the remedy for state and local fiscal squeeze during the COVID-19 recession? More debt, and that is okay // American review of public administration (2020) vol. 50, 6-7, p. 584−589.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0275074020941717 - Raudla, R., Bur, S., Keel, K. The Effects of crises and European fiscal governance reforms on the budgetary processes of member states // Journal of Common Market Studies (2020) vol. 58, 3, p. 740–756 : tab.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12972 - Piatak, J.S., Douglas, J.W., Raudla, R. The role perceptions of government professionals: the effects of gender, educational field, and prior job sector // Public management review (2020) vol. 22, 10, p. 1515-1534.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2019.1642949 - Valdmaa, K., Pugh, R., Müür, J. Challenges with strategic placed-based innovation policy: implementation of smart specialization in Estonia and Wales // European planning studies (2021) vol. 29, 4, p. 681-698.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2020.1767541 - Tavares, A. F., Raudla, R., Silva, T. Best of both worlds? Independent lists and voter turnout in local elections // Journal of urban affairs (2020) vol. 42, 7, p. 955-974.
https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2019.1623682 - Raudla, R., Spendzharova, A. Challenges to the European single market at thirty : renationalisation, resilience, or renewed integration? // Journal of European Integration (2022) vol. 44, 1, p. 1-17.
https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2021.2011263 - Krimmer, R., Prentza, A., Mamrot, S., Schmidt, C., Cepilovs, A. The future of the once-only principle in Europe // The once-only principle : The TOOP project. Cham : Springer, 2021. p. 225–236. (Lecture notes in computer science ; 12621).
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79851-2_12 - Douglas, J., Raudla, R. Who is afraid of the big bad debt? A modern money theory perspective on federal deficits and debt // Public budgeting & finance (2020) vol. 40, 3, p. 6−25.
https://doi.org/10.1111/pbaf.12247 - Mikheeva, O., Juuse, E. Development finance in the Baltic States and the process of Europeanization // The reinvention of development banking in the European Union: industrial policy in the single market and the emergence of a field. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021. p. 253−282.
"The Reinvention of Development Banking in the European Union" - Keel, K. The impact of the EU’s economic and fiscal policy measures on the budgeting process of Estonia // Halduskultuur : The Estonian journal of administrative culture and digital governance (2021) vol. 21, no. 2, p. 22-42.
https://www.ester.ee/record=b2157203*est http://halduskultuur.eu/journal/index.php/HKAC/issue/view/29/FULL%20PDF https://doi.org/10.32994/hk.v21i2 - Raudla, R., Juuse, E., Cepilovs, A. Policy learning from crisis in financial regulation and supervision : comparative analysis of Estonia, Latvia, and Sweden // Journal of Baltic studies (2019) vol. 50, 4, p. 495-514.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2019.1632911 - Raudla, R., Bashir, M., Douglas, J.W. The Punjab revenue authority: meeting the challenges of a new institution // Public administration and development (2019) vol. 39, 2, p. 78-88.
https://doi.org/10.1002/pad.1845 - Mikheeva, O., Tõnurist, P. Co-Creation for the reduction of uncertainty in financial governance : the case of monetary authority of Singapore // Halduskultuur: The Estonian journal of administrative culture and digital governance. [Tallinn] : Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, 2019. p. 60-80. (Halduskultuur : The Estonian journal of administrative culture and digital governance ; vol. 19, no. 2).
https://www.ester.ee/record=b2157203*est https://doi.org/10.32994/hk.v19i2.199 - Juuse, E., Raudla, R., Cepilovs, A., Mikheeva, O. The Europeanization of financial regulation and supervision on the Baltic–Nordic axis: the perspective of national bureaucracies // Journal of Baltic studies (2019) vol. 50, 4, p. 409-433.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2019.1678495 - Cepilovs, A., Török, Z. The politics of fiscal consolidation and reform under external constraints in the European periphery : comparative study of Hungary and Latvia // Public management review (2019) vol. 21, 9, p. 1287-1306 : tab.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2019.1618384 - Raudla, R., Mjøset, L., Kattel, R., Cepilovs, A., Mikheeva, O., Tranøy, B. S. Different faces of fiscal bureaucracy // Halduskultuur: The Estonian journal of administrative culture and digital governance. [Tallinn] : Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, 2018. p. 5-36. (Halduskultuur: The Estonian journal of administrative culture and digital governance ; vol. 19, no. 1).
https://doi.org/10.32994/ac.v19i1.177 https://www.ester.ee/record=b2157203*est - Tõnurist, P., Valdmaa, K., Raudla, R. Impact of climate discourse on national scientific networks in energy technologies : the case of Estonian science and industry linkages // Halduskultuur : the Estonian journal of administrative culture and digital governance (2019) vol. 20, 1, p. 20-45 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.32994/hk.v20i1.203 http://halduskultuur.eu/journal/index.php/HKAC/issue/view/26/20-1-full-pdf https://www.ester.ee/record=b1447450*est - Raudla, R., Keel, K., Pajussaar, M. The creation of the fiscal council in Estonia : exploring the explanations for its institutional design // Public budgeting and finance (2018) vol. 38, 2, p. 61-80.
https://doi.org/10.1111/pbaf.12188 - Pataccini, L., Kattel, R., Raudla, R. Introduction: Europeanization and financial crisis in the Baltic Sea region: implications, perceptions, and conclusions ten years after the collapse // Journal of Baltic studies (2019) vol. 50, 4, p. 403−408.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2019.1681126 - Raudla, R., Cepilovs, A., Kattel, R., Sutt, L. The European Union as a trigger of discursive change : the impact of the structural deficit rule in Estonia and Latvia // Central European journal of public policy (2018) vol. 12, 2, 15 p : ill.
https://doi.org/10.2478/cejpp-2018-0006 - Mohr, Z.T., Raudla, R., Douglas, J.W. Is cost accounting used with other NPM practices? Evidence from European countries // Public performance & management review (2018) vol. 41, 4, p. 696-722.
https://doi.org/10.1080/15309576.2018.1480391 - Bel, G., Raudla, R., Rodrigues, M., Tavares, A.F. These rules are made for spending : testing and extending the law of 1/n // Public choice (2018) vol. 174, 1-2, p. 41-60 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-017-0488-y - Kattel, R., Cepilovs, A., Lember, V., Tõnurist, P. Indicators for public sector innovations : theoretical frameworks and practical applications // Administrative culture = Halduskultuur = Административная культура = Verwaltungskultur = Hallintokulttuuri. Vol. 19, no. 1. [Tallinn] : Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, 2018. p. 77-104 : tab. (Administrative culture = Halduskultuur = Административная культура = Verwaltungskultur = Hallintokulttuuri; vol. 19, no. 1).
https://doi.org/10.32994/ac.v19i1.208 https://halduskultuur.eu/journal/index.php/HKAC/article/view/208 - Raudla, R., Cepilovs, A., Kuokštis, V., Kattel, R. Fiscal policy learning from crisis : comparative analysis of the Baltic countries // Journal of comparative policy analysis : research and practice (2018) vol. 20, 3, p. 288–303 : tab.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13876988.2016.1244947 - Raudla, R., Tavares, A. F. Inter-municipal cooperation and austerity policies : obstacles or opportunities? // Inter-Municipal cooperation in Europe : institutions and governance. [Cham] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. p. 17-41. (Governance and public management).
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62819-6_2 - Douglas, J., Raudla, R., Randma-Liiv, T., Savi, R. The impact of greater centralization on the relevance of performance information in European governments during the fiscal crisis // Administration & society (2019) vol. 51, 7, p. 1020-1050.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0095399716680055 - Tavares, A.F., Raudla, R. Size, density and small scale elections : A multi-level analysis of voter turnout in sub-municipal governments // Electoral studies (2018) vol. 56, p. 1-13 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2018.09.001 - Krenjova, J., Raudla, R. Policy diffusion at the local level : participatory budgeting in Estonia // Urban affairs review (2018) vol. 54, 2, p. 1-29 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1078087416688961 - Grossi, G., Steccolini, I., Adhikari, P., Brown, J., Christensen, M., Cordery, C., Ferry, L., Lassou, P., McDonald III, B., Raudla, R., Sicilia, M., Vinnari, E. The future of public sector accounting research. A polyphonic debate // Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management (2023) vol. 20, 1, p. 1-37.
https://doi.org/10.1108/QRAM-09-2022-0135 - Mikheeva, O. Financing of innovation : national development banks in newly industrialized countries of East Asia // Journal of Post Keynesian Economics (2019) Vol. 42, 4, p. 590 - 619.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01603477.2019.1640065 - Raudla, R., Bur, S. Austerity and the use of performance information in the budget process // Public money and management (2023) vol. 43, 6, p. 627-634.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2021.2020976 - Callanan, M., Houlberg, K., Raudla, R., Teles, F. "Top-down" local government mergers : political and institutional factors facilitating radical amalgamation reforms // Journal of urban affairs (2023) vol. 46, 10, p. 2040-2063.
https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2022.2144335 - Kitsing, M., Vallistu, J. Future of governance for digital platform ecosystems // Proceedings of Fifth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology : ICICT 2020, London ; 2. Berlin : Springer, 2021. p. 334-341. (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ; 1184).
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5859-7_33 - Raudla, R., Mohr, Z., Douglas, J. W. Which managerial reforms facilitate public sector innovation? // Public administration (2023) vol. 102, 2, p. 771-788.
https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12951 - Ringa, R., Douglas, J.W., MacCarthaigh, M. Medium-term expenditure frameworks : credible instrument or mirage? // Public budgeting and finance (2022) vol. 42, 3, p. 71-92 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1111/pbaf.12316 - Vallistu, J. Digital social security accounts for platform workers: The case of Estonia’s entrepreneur account // International social security review (2023) vol. 76, 3, p. 3-24.
https://doi.org/10.1111/issr.12337 - Raudla, R., Sarapuu, K., Juuse, E., Vallistu, J., Onno, K., Cepilovs, A., Harbuzova, N. To experiment or not to experiment in tax policy? // Halduskultuur : The Estonian journal of administrative culture and digital governance (2023) vol. 22, 1, p. 27-48.
https://doi.org/10.32994/hk.v22i1.289 http://halduskultuur.eu/journal/index.php/HKAC/article/view/289 https://www.ester.ee/record=b2157203*est - Raudla, R., Callanan, M., Houlberg, K., Teles, F. Municipal finances in unitary systems : the effects of crises on financial autonomy in four European countries // Research handbook on city and municipal finance. : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023. p. 391-407.
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800372962.00030 - Raudla, R., Ylönen, M., Kuusela, H. Debate: Management consultants and public management reforms // Public money & management (2023) vol. 43, 5, p. 432-433.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2023.2204623 - Ylönen, M., Raudla, R., Babic, M. From tax havens to cryptocurrencies : secrecy-seeking capital in the global economy // Review of international political economy (2023) vol. 31, 2, p. 563-588.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2023.2232392