Table of Contents
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;