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The new Eighth Edition examines the budgeting process over time and sets issues like the federal deficit and health care expenditures in political and comparative context. As in previous editions, the book also draws on examples from all levels of government and emphasizes the relationships among them. By carefully analyzing each strand of the decision-making process, Rubin shows the extraordinary cooperation involved in passing a budget and achieving accountability.
Contents
Tables, Figures, and MinicasesForewordAcknowledgments1. The Politics of Public BudgetsWhat Is Budgeting?Governmental BudgetingMinicase: City Manager Replies to Scathing Budget CritiqueMinicase: Missouri Constitutional Amendment Reduces Governor's PowersMinicase: The Courts and New Jersey Pension ReformMinicase: Doctoring Audit ReportsMinicase: The Federal Debt Limit as a ConstraintMinicase: Highly Constrained Budgeting-Colorado's TABOR AmendmentThe Meaning of Politics in Public BudgetingBudgetary Decision-MakingMicrobudgeting and MacrobudgetingSummary and ConclusionsUseful Websites2. Revenue PoliticsRaising TaxesMinicase: Louisiana-Getting Around the No Tax Increase PledgeMinicase: A Recent Tax Increase in PhiladelphiaThe Politics of ProtectionMinicase: Wisconsin and Unexamined Tax BreaksMinicase: Illinois and the Role of the PressMinicase: Tax Breaks for Hedge Fund ManagersMinicase: California and Enterprise Zone Tax BreaksMinicase: North Carolina and Business Tax BreaksMinicase: Michigan-Terminating Its Film SubsidyMinicase: New Mexico and Tax Expenditure ReportingTax ReformMinicase: Georgia Tax Reform Left HangingMinicase: Michigan Tax Reform or Class Warfare?Summary and ConclusionsUseful Websites3. The Politics of ProcessBudget Process and the Characteristics of Public BudgetingMinicase: Harrisburg-Whose Priorities Dominate?Macro- and MicropoliticsMinicase: Republican Macrolevel Reform ProposalsDesigning Process to Achieve Policy and Political GoalsMinicase: Micropolitics-Bending the Rules to Win Individual DecisionsMinicase: How the Governor's Veto Is UsedVariation Between and Among Federal, State, and Local GovernmentsMinicase: Maine-The Governor Versus the LegislatureMinicase: Limits of Governor's Vetoes in New MexicoMinicase: San Diego-Fiscal Problems, Strong Mayor, and Veto PowersSummary and ConclusionsUseful Websites4. The Dynamics of Changing Budget ProcessesOverviewMinicase: New York State-Powerful Governor, Weak Legislature, Informal BudgetingMinicase: The Governor Versus the CourtsFederal Budget Process ChangesMinicase: Deeming Resolutions and Ad Hoc BudgetingMinicase: Ad Hoc Scoring RulesMinicase: Overseas Contingency OperationsChanges in Budget Process at the State LevelMinicase: Maryland's Legislative Budget PowerMinicase: South Carolina's Legislatively Dominated Budget Process Begins to BudgeMinicase: The Executive and the Legislature in Florida's BudgetingChanges in Budget Process at the Local LevelMinicase: Florida and Unfunded MandatesSummary and ConclusionsUseful Websites5. Expenditures: Strategies, Structures, and the EnvironmentStrategiesMinicase: A $17,000 Drip PanMinicase: Homeland Security-A Program Tied to a Goal of Unlimited WorthMinicase: Amtrak Train WreckMinicase: Congressional Budget Office and ScoringStructureMinicase: Budgetary Implications of Direct College Loans Versus Loan GuaranteesMinicase: An Open-Ended Discretionary Program-Immigration EnforcementMinicase: California and Mandatory Spending on Redevelopment AgenciesMinicase: Fannie and FreddieMinicase: New Jersey's Fund Diversion From the UnemploymentInsurance FundThe EnvironmentStrategy, Structure, and Environment Combined: The Medicare ExampleSummary and ConclusionsUseful Websites6. The Politics of Balancing the BudgetBalance as a ConstraintMinicase: Is the Wisconsin Budget Balanced?Minicase: Balance in the Federal Highway Trust FundMultiple Actors, Ideologies, and DeficitsThe Environment, Unpredictability, and DeficitsIncreasing Stress Between Payer and DeciderMinicase: Chicago's Parking MetersMinicase: Iowa's Privatization of MedicaidThe Politics of Deficits: The Federal LevelThe Politics of Deficits: StatesMinicase: Detroit BankruptcyMinicase: Why Did Jefferson County, Alabama, Declare Bankruptcy?The Politics of Balance in CitiesMinicase: The Politics of Deficits-An Urban ExampleSummary and ConclusionsUseful Websites7. Budget Execution: The Politics of AdaptationMinicase: Missouri-An Executive Abuses Discretion?Tools for Changing the BudgetMinicase: Using Holdbacks to Change Legislative Priorities-MarylandMinicase: Herbert Hoover and Legislative VetoesMinicase: The National Weather Service ReprogrammingSummary and ConclusionsUseful Websites8. Controlling Waste, Fraud, and AbuseThe Politics of Finding Waste, Fraud, and AbuseMinicase: President Obama Fires an IGMinicase: Who Guards the Guards? Not the Guards ThemselvesMinicase: Acting IG for Homeland Security-Too Close to the DepartmentMinicase: New York State and MedicaidMinicase: The Massachusetts Inspector General Versus the GovernorMinicase: Baltimore's Departing IGSummary and ConclusionsUseful Websites9. Budgetary Decision-Making and PoliticsReal-Time BudgetingA Comparison of the Decision-Making StreamsCommon ThemesReconceptualizing ReformAvenues for ResearchSummary and ConclusionsUseful WebsitesNotesAuthor IndexSubject IndexAbout the Author
