Talk:Cameralism

I don't see any actual definition of what cameralism is anywhere on the page
The closest sentence seems to be "Cameralism ... is ... a method aimed at increasing the efficiency of cameralists", which conveys absolutely nothing. Does it have central tenets? What are they? What makes it special enough to get its own name? How was it new and interesting? How did it differ from other "science and technology of administration"? What does "science and technology of administration" even mean? It "concerned the management of the state's finances" how? Did other things "concern the management of the state's finances"? How was cameralism different from those other things?
 * I concur with the above, and would also like to point out that the current article repeatedly insists that cameralism is a science, without backing up the claim - there's no actual evidence provided that it is one. Instead, what little detail is provided implies it isn't a science at all.  Could someone who knows what cameralism is please clean this up?24.2.229.100 (talk) 05:06, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

Can the template messages at the top be removed?
I did som rather extensive changes that I hope are appropriate. Can the template messages be removed now? --Robin.ronneke (talk) 17:43, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Polizei, as far as I am aware, never refers to "policy". In modern German, it only means Police.

Dr. Christiaens's comment on this article
Dr. Christiaens has reviewed this Wikipedia page, and provided us with the following comments to improve its quality:

"This part about Cameralism is rather from an historic point of view and could be enlarged indicating that cameralism has also the fundament of cameralistic accounting (German: Kameralistik). Nowadays the term 'budgetary accounting' is more appropriate and this budgetary accounting is covers an important part of public administration. Instead of budgetary accounting, which is principally the same as cameralistic accounting, some scholars call it 'cash accounting', but this term actually is misused. In the references you could add an important publication in this respect, being: Monsen, Norvald (2002), 'The Case for Cameral Accounting ', Financial Accountability & Management, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 39-72"

We hope Wikipedians on this talk page can take advantage of these comments and improve the quality of the article accordingly.

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 * Reference : J. Christiaens & J. Rommel, 2006. "Governmental Accounting Reforms: Going Back Where We Belong?," Working Papers of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium 06/398, Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration.

ExpertIdeas (talk) 11:21, 4 September 2015 (UTC)