The Legislature and the Budget

The Role Of Government’s Executive And The Legislative Body In Budgeting Management On Realization Of Local Government’s Good Governance

“…This also suitable to Shick (2002) that legislative must aware their capacity as people who has role in the budgeting process, but the political influence that disturb them in do their function may occurred. Stapenhurst (2004) describes that Legislative must use their political capability professionally in discuss and evaluate the budget and not to make disputation that neglect the budget. Anything that cause the weak influence of legislative institute in budgeting process for the realization of good governance is the implementation of performance valuation.…”

“…It is useful to make a concept of total budget system as a process of budget cycle that integrated and continuously in which the legislative has a key role in each step of the cycle (Stapenhurst, 2004). The cycle consists of institutions, the form of government system that known as executive, public service, civil society, and legislative.…”

“…Therefore, the legislative must show their role as authority institution in legalize the budget draft submitted by executive. Legislative must implement their political capability professionally in discuss and evaluate the budget draft and not involves in disputation that neglect the budget planning (Stapenhurst, 2004).…”

Reforming the Budgeting Process in China

“…According to a report of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (Gustafson, 2003), most legislatures have between two and four months to deliberate on and pass the annual budget; most legislatures that are active in the budget process have strong and active committee systems, including vesting principal responsibility in a budget or finance committee or sharing power with multiple committees; and adequate staff and technical expertise are also critical for legislatures to fulfill their constitutional responsibilities. Stapenhurst (2004) also discusses five reasons why the legislature is not active in some countries, and two of the reasons are the absence of legislative budget research capacity and of specialised budget committees.…”

“…Over the years, the CBO has grown into a very authoritative source of budget information, allowing the Congress to put together a budget on its own. In France, the National Assembly initiated a wide-ranging budget reform, including a reclassification of the budget, in order to support legislative oversight and an expansion of powers to amend expenditures (Stapenhurst, 2004).…”