Federal Budget and Financial Management Reform - Couverture rigide

Lynch, Thomas

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0899305385 ISBN 13 : 9780899305387

Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 1991

Synopsis

A collection of original essays by specialists in the field, this book examines the crucial budgetary and financial management problems that face the United States government and makes concrete recommendations on how current processes can be improved. The authors make it clear that although the present federal budgetary and financial management systems are not working, the case is far from hopeless.

Several chapters analyze the flaws in the federal budget-making process that lead to deadlock between the president and Congress and ultimately to higher deficits. To remove the checks and balances system from its present political stalemate, a workable two-stage budgetary process is suggested and bipartisan action at the highest level is strongly urged. Another chapter explains the context in which forecasting is used in federal government budget making and addresses the problem of the failure to predict the yearly budget deficit with reasonable accuracy. Proposals for improving public financial management include centralizing financial management functions, improving debt collection practices, eliminating deficiencies in the application of information technology, and privatizing entities such as the postal service, AMTRAK, and Social Security. Providing clarification of complex issues together with constructive approaches to reform, this book will be of interest to both general readers and scholars, students, and professionals concerned with government, public policy, and financial management.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

THOMAS D. LYNCH is Professor of Public Administration at Florida Atlantic University. He is Vice President of the American Society for Public Administration and will be its President in 1992-93. He has written many books and articles, but he is primarily known for Public Budgeting in America which is in its third edition and co-editor of Handbook on Public Budgeting and Financial Management. He founded and edited for ten years The Bureaucrat.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Praeger Publishers Inc
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0899305385
• ISBN 13: 9780899305387
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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