Tools for Transparency in Central Government Spending.
Tools for Transparency in Central Government Spending.
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DOI：
10.23889/ijpds.v4i1.1092
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发表时间：
2019-07-10
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Rahal C
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Rahal C
对政府的信任、政策效力和施政议程在世纪的头几十年中比以往任何时候都更为重要。出于这个原因，我们在此提出centgovspend，一个开源软件库，它提供了在微观层面上自动抓取和解析中央政府支出的功能。虽然设计理念在国际上适用于任何未来的数据源管道，但我们专门为英国量身定制，这个国家不仅在采购透明度方面是独一无二的，而且还受到议会开支丑闻，多年的紧缩政策，以及关于退出欧盟公投的动荡政治进程的影响。该库可选地调节供应商，并随后分析向私人实体进行的支付。我们的实施导致超过490万笔支付，价值超过3.5万亿英镑。作为展示这样的数据集使可能的一种方式，我们概述了公共管理（标准行业分类器的采购），社会学（供应政府的分层）和网络科学（供应商的董事会联锁）领域的三个原型应用程序，然后提出公共采购数据来源和分析的未来方向的建议。
Trust in government, policy effectiveness and the governance agenda has rarely been more important than in the opening decades of the twenty first century. For that reason, we herein present centgovspend, an open source software library which provides functionality to automatically scrape and parse central government spending at the micro level. While the design ideals are internationally applicable to any future data origination pipelines, we specifically tailor it to the United Kingdom, a country which is unique not only in terms of its transparency in procurement, but also one which was subject to a parliamentary expenses scandal, years of austerity, and then a volatile political process regarding a referendum to leave the European Union. The library optionally reconciles suppliers and subsequently analyzes payments made to private entities. Our implementation results in scraping over 4.9m payments worth over £3.5tn in value. As a way of showcasing what such a dataset makes possible, we outline three prototype applications in the fields of public administration (procurement across Standard Industry Classifier), sociology (stratification across those who supply government) and network science (board interlock across suppliers) before presenting suggestions for the future direction of public procurement data origination and analysis.