Irene S. Rubin

Public Budgeting (eBook, PDF)

Policy, Process and Politics

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Produktbeschreibung

Addresses the most important theoretical and practical problems underlying public budgeting. This anthology is organized topically rather than historically, with an effort to delineate the issues needed to understand some of the controversies in the field. It describes what public budgeting is, where it comes from, and what it is for.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317461845
• Artikelnr.: 42188093

Autorenporträt

Irene S. Rubin received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago in 1977. She taught at the University of Maryland College Park from 1979 to 1981, and at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, from 1981 to 2004, when she retired from teaching. She has spent her professional career studying the fiscal problems of federal, state, and local governments. Among her books are Running in the Red: The Political Dynamics of Urban Fiscal Stress; Class Tax and Power: Municipal Budgeting in the United States; Balancing the Federal Budget: Eating the Seed Corn or Trimming the Herds; and The Politics of Public Budgeting.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 What is a Public Budget? Origins and Purposes
Chapter 1 Making "Common Sense" of Federal Budgeting, Joseph White
Chapter 2 Who Invented Budgeting in the United States?, Irene S. Rubin
Chapter 3 The Road to Ppb, Allen Schick
Part 2 Budgeting in a Democracy
Institutional Arrangements
Chapter 4 Paradox, Ambiguity, and Enigma, Naomi Caiden
Chapter 5 The Executive Budget, Bernard T. Pitsvada
Chapter 6 The End of Executive Dominance in State Appropriations, Glenn Abney, Thomas P. Lauth
Chapter 7 Budgeting by the Ballot, Krishna K. Tummala, Marilyn F. Wessel
Part 3 The Roles of the Key Budget Actors and Decision Making
subpart3.1 Role of the Executive Budget Office
Chapter 8 The Office of Management and Budget in a Changing Scene, Frederick C. Mosher, Max O. StephensonJr.
Chapter 9 The Shifting Roles of State Budget offices in the Midwest, Kurt Thurmaier, James J. Gosling
subpart3.2 The Courts-When and How They Intervene
Chapter 10 Courts and Public Purse Strings, Jeffrey D. Straussman
subpart3.3 The Bureaucracy
Chapter 11 Federal Agency Budget Officers, Herbert G. Persil
Chapter 12 The Budget-Minimizing Bureaucrat?, Julie Dolan
subpart3.4 Incrementalism
Chapter 13 Police Budgeting, Charles K. Coe, Deborah Lamm Weisel
Chapter 14 Aaron Wildavsky and the Demise of Incrementalism, Irene S. Rubin
Chapter 15 Decision Strategies of the Legislative Budget Analyst, Katherine G. Willoughby, Mary A. Finn
Part 4 The Budget Process
Chapter 16 Ten Years of the Budget Act, Louis Fisher
Chapter 17 Deficit Politics and Constitutional Government, Lance T. LeLoup, Barbara Luck Graham, Stacey Barwick
Chapter 18 The Budget Enforcement Act and its Survival, Philip G. Joyce
Chapter 19 Does Budget Format Really Govern the Actions of Budgetmakers?, Gloria A. Grizzle
Chapter 20 Participatory Democracy and Budgeting, Jerry McCaffery, John H. Bowman
Part 5 Constraints
subpart5.1 Federalism
Chapter 21 Changes in Intergovernmental Fiscal Patterns, George F. Break
Chapter 22 At What Price?, Marcella Ridlen Ray, Timothy J. Conlan
subpart5.2 Entitlements
Chapter 23 The Inflexibility of Contemporary Budgets, Bengt-Christer Ysander, Ann Robinson
Chapter 24 Re-Establishing Budgetary Flexibility, Ann Robinson, Bengt-Christer Ysander
Chapter 25 Entitlement Budgeting vs. Bureau Budgeting, Joseph White
subpart5.3 Tax and Expenditure Limitations
Chapter 26 Constraint and Uncertainty, Naomi Caiden, Jeffrey I. Chapman
Chapter 27 Restraint in a Land of Plenty, Glen Hahn Cope, W. Norton Grubb
subpart5.4 Court Decisions and Constitutional Rights
Chapter 28 Budgeting Rights, Jeffrey D. Straussman, Kurt Thurmaier
Part 6 Privatization and Contracting
Chapter 29 Competition and Choice in New York City Social Services, E.S. Savas
Chapter 30 The Need for a Privatization Process, Bruce A. Wallin
Part 7 Budget Norms and Ethics
Chapter 31 Budgetary Balance, Carol W. Lewis
Chapter 32 Federal Budget Concepts-Bright Lines or Black Holes?, Thomas J. Cuny
Chapter 33 Accountability and Entrepreneurial Public Management, Kevin P. Kearns
Chapter 34 The Lottery and Education, Charles J. Spindler
Chapter 35 The Monster that Ate the United States Senate, Bill Dauster