Aman Khan, W. Bartley Hildreth

Budget Theory in the Public Sector

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Dominated by multiple, competing, and occasionally overlapping theories, the act of budgeting is by no means a staid, dispiriting task. Kahn, Hildreth, and their group of scholars and practitioners show that budgeting is an institutional process, an incremental decision-making tool, and when correctly applied becomes a tribute to managerial and administrative efficiency. Taken together, the chapters provide an unusually coherent conceptual foundation for budgeting as a legitimate field of study, and demonstrate yet again that in its current state the field is truly eclectic but compartmentalized. They also show why it is so difficult to come up with one unified theory of budgeting-and that is one of the book's major benefits. It opens new areas of inquiry that, in the opinion of Khan, Hildreth, and others, will generate renewed interest in probing the field's theory and applications. Understandable and readable for those with limited knowledge of the subject but needing a sufficiently useful grasp of its various issues and problems, the book is both an important reference work for scholars in the field and a practical guide for students of administration, their teachers, and for managers throughout the public sector.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 642g
• ISBN-13: 9781567202816
• ISBN-10: 1567202810
• Artikelnr.: 21380968

Autorenporträt

Aman Khan, W. Bartley Hildreth

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Budget Theory for a New Century by Lance T. LeLoup Early Budget
Theory: The Progressive Theory of Expenditures by Julia Beckett The
Separation of Powers Principle and Budget Decision Making by Thomas P.
Lauth Nonconventional Budgets: Interpreting Budgets and Budgeting
Interpretations by Gerald J. Miller A Multiple Rationality Model of
Budgeting by Katherine Willoughby The Principal-Agent Model and Budget
Theory by John Forrester Responsibility Budgeting and Accounting Reform by
Larry R. Jones and Fred Thompson Budget Theory for Public Administration .
. . and Public Administrators by Gerasimos A. Gianakis and Cliffors P.
McCue The Theory of the Public Sector Budget: An Economic Perspective by
Merl Hackbart and James R. Ramsey Budgets as Portfolios by Aman Khan
Punctuated Equilibrium: An Agenda-Based Theory of Budgeting by Meagan
Jordan The Impact of Agency Mission on Agency Budget Strategy: A Deductive
Theory by Marcia Lynn Whicker and Changhwan Mo Budgeting for Outcomes by
Lawrence L. Martin Philosophy, Public Budgeting, and the Information Age by
Thomas D. and Cynthia E. Lynch Selected Bibliography Index