Government at a Glance 2019 was prepared by the OECD Directorate for Public Governance, under the leadership of Marcos Bonturi, Director. The work was led by Zsuzsanna Lonti, under the direction of Irène Hors and Monica Brezzi. The publication was drafted by Barbara Baredes, Santiago Gonzalez, Alessandro Lupi, and Minjoo Son. Clara Delcourt provided research assistance. Major contributions were received from Daniel Gerson, Donal Mulligan and Pinar Guven (Chapter 3: Public Employment); Stephane Jacobzone, Claire Salama, Diego Millan (Chapter 4: Institutions); Andrew Blazey, Delphine Moretti, Juliana Jansen, Anne Keller, Sherie Nicol, Ana-Maria Ruiz (Chapter 5: Budgeting practices and procedures); Daniel Gerson and Donal Mulligan (Chapter 6: Human resources management); Christiane Arndt-Bascle, Benjamin Gerloff, Rebecca Schultz (Chapter 7: Regulatory government); Janos Bertok, Paulo Magina, Matthieu Cahen, Antoine Comps, Fleur D’Souza, Tessa Cullen (Chapter 8: Public Procurement); Barbara Ubaldi, Reginald Dadzie, Jacob Arturo Riviera Perez, Joao Vasconcelos, Zina Akrout, Cecilia Emilsson (Chapter 9: Open and Digital government). We thank Janos Bertok, Andrew Blazey, Eva Beuselinck, Stéphane Jacobzone, Edwin Lau and Barbara Ubaldi for their valuable comments to Chapter 1. We also thank Andrea Uhrhammer for editorial support, as well as Julie Harris and Joelle Palmieri for their help in preparing the document for publication. Translation in French was made possible thanks to Maia Kirilovski, Frederic Berri and Maria Eiguren.
The publication is the result of contributions from a wide range of sources and expertise. It benefited from inputs by the OECD Public Governance Committee; the Government at a Glance Steering Group (details in Annex G); the Committee on Statistics and Statistical Policy (CSSP) ; the Public Employment and Management Working Party; the Working Party of Senior Budget Officials; the Working Party of Senior Digital Government Officials (E-Leaders); the Working Party of Leading Practitioners on Public Procurement; and the OECD Expert Group on Open Data. Valuable comments were received from Gaetan Lafortune, Chris James and Maxime Ladaique of the OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs; Corinne Heckman, Daniel Sanchez Serra and Camila Demoraes of the OECD Directorate of Education and Skills; Carlotta Balestra of the OECD Statistics and Data Directorate; and Oliver Petzold from the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration.