The Politics of Public Budgeting: Getting And Spending, Borrowing And Balancing - Couverture souple

Rubin, Irene S.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1933116064 ISBN 13 : 9781933116068

Editeur : CQ Press, 2005

Synopsis

Book by Rubin I

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

As Irene Rubin has shown convincingly in past editions, public budgeting is inherently political. Short-term partisan goals overrun long-term public interest and democratic processes, eroding institutional and public capacity to address collective problems. By presenting federal, state, and local budgeting within a comparative framework, Rubin s classic text gives explicit attention to issues of federalism, always sensitive to the power struggles between the different branches and levels of government. How much control is exerted from above and what degree of autonomy can be found at each level of government? What kind of influence do elected officials wield over government priorities? How do we resolve the tension between patronage, pork, and tax breaks necessary for reelection and the requirements of balance, technical efficiency, and prioritization? Analyzing each strand of the decision-making process, Rubin shows the extraordinary coordination involved in passing a budget and achieving some level of accountability. By moving beyond the simplistic and rigid executive proposal and legislative disposal cycle other books follow, Rubin explores shifts in power over time and explains decisions that do not always flow in a linear fashion. A thorough revision at every turn, updates include: the return to massive deficits at the federal level, requiring more attention on the relationship between budget process and outcomes the resurgence of secrecy in recent years, looking at how and why the level of transparency decreases at some times and increases at others the implications of 9/11, exploring the impact of funding wars in Afghanistan and Iraq the difficulty of getting Inspectors General sufficient independence and cooperation to implement their work, showing how these officials are straddling a barbed wire fence over twenty new minicase studies

Biographie de l'auteur :

Irene S. Rubin is professor emeritus of political science in the division of public administration at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of a number of other books on public budgeting, including Balancing the Federal Budget: Trimming the Herds or Eating the Seed Corn?, Class, Tax and Power: Municipal Budgeting in the United States, and Shrinking the Federal Government. She edited the journal Public Budgeting and Finance for two years and Public Administration Review for three, and was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington in 1996.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: CQ Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1933116064
• ISBN 13: 9781933116068
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 5
• Nombre de pages: 301