Elizabeth Garrett

Fiscal Challenges (eBook, PDF)

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Budget Policy

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Produktbeschreibung

Fiscal Challenges: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Budget Policy brings together leading experts from a range of disciplines to explore the problems of budget policy. The authors, including top economists, political scientists, historians, psychologists, and legal scholars, together provide a unique, multidisciplinary introduction to the subject. In addition to in-depth analysis of congressional budget procedures and the economics of federal deficits and debt, Fiscal Challenges explores important recent developments in budget policy at the state level and in the European Union. The goal of the volume is to offer readers wide-ranging perspectives on the many different academic disciplines and perspectives that bear on the evaluation of budgetary procedures and their reform.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511372971
• Artikelnr.: 38205518

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Garrett is the Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics, Political Science, and Policy, Planning and Development at the University of Southern California. She is also the Director of the USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics. Her primary scholarly interests are legislative process, direct democracy, the federal budget process, study of democratic institutions, statutory interpretation, administrative law, and tax policy. She is the co-author of the leading casebook on legislation and statutory interpretation, Cases and Materials on Legislation: Statutes and the Creation of Public Policy (4th ed. forthcoming), and the second edition of Legislation and Statutory Interpretation. President George W. Bush appointed her to serve on the nine-member bipartisan Tax Reform Panel that released its final report in November 2005. Before entering academia, she clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall on the US Supreme Court, and she served as legal counsel and legislative director for Senator David L. Boren (D-Okla.). Professor Garrett received her B.A. with special distinction from the University of Oklahoma and her J.D. from the University of Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Part I. The Law and Politics of Fiscal Policy: Introduction; 1.
The Congressional budget process William Dauster; 2. Budget gimmicks Cheryl
Block; 3. Transparency in the US budget process Elizabeth Garrett and
Adrian Vermeule; 4. European experiences with fiscal rules and institutions
Jurgen von Hagen; Part II. Understanding Federal Deficits and Public Debt:
Introduction; 5. Perspectives on federal deficits and debt Michael Boskin;
6. Counting the ways: the structure of federal spending Howell Jackson; 7.
Starving the beast: the psychology of budget deficits Jonathan Baron and
Edward McCaffery; Part III. Budgeting and Fiscal Constraints at the State
Level: Introduction; 8. Budgetary arrangements in the 50 states: in search
of model practices Juliet Musso, Elizabeth Graddy and Jennifer Grizard; 9.
The calculus of constraint: a critical review of state fiscal institutions
Tracy Gordon; 10. When does the ballot box limit the budget? Politics and
spending limits in California, Colorado, Utah, and Washington Thad Kousser,
Matthew McCubbins and Kaj Rozga; Part IV. Intergovernmental Aspects of
Budget Policy: Introduction; 11. Dysfunctional or optimal institutions?
State debt limitations, the structure of state and local governments, and
the finance of American infrastructure Barry Weingast and John Wallis; 12.
Federal-state budgetary interactions David Super; Part V. Judicial Powers
and Budget Policy: Introduction; 13. New property, entrenchment, and the
fiscal constitution John Harrison; 14. Courts, constitutions, and public
finance: some recent experiences from the States Richard Briffault.