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Regulatory space in local government audit: An international comparative study of 20 countries

Ferry, L. and Midgley, H. and Ruggiero, P. (2022) 'Regulatory space in local government audit: An international comparative study of 20 countries.', Public Money and Management .

Abstract

This paper compares audit regulatory space in local government for twenty countries. Building upon prior research, it shows four themes of new audit space, namely ‘organisation and fragmentation’, ‘independence and competition’, ‘audit scope’, and ‘inspection’ are relevant internationally, although suggests inspection is better categorised as performance assessment. Audit construction through these themes is shaped by a country’s constitutional framework, but also modern state theories consensus around audit as an assessment of government quality that meant performance audit is increasingly popular.

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Publisher Web site:https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2022.2129559
Publisher statement:This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
Date accepted:06 September 2022
Date deposited:13 September 2022
Date of first online publication:07 October 2022
Date first made open access:10 November 2022

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