Description
Aaron Wildavsky's greatest concern, as expressed in his writings, is how people manage to live together. This concern may at first appear to have little to do with the study of budgeting, but for Wildavsky budgeting made living together possible. Indeed, as he argues in Budgeting and Governing, now available in paperback, if you cannot budget, you cannot govern.
Table of Contents
1: Making Budgets; 1: A Budget for All Seasons? Why the Traditional Budget Lasts; 2: The Political Economy of Efficiency; 3: Rescuing Policy Analysis; 4: Toward a Radical Incrementalism: A Proposal to Aid Congress in Reform of the Budgetary Process; 5: The Annual Expenditure Increment; 6: Budgetary Reform in an Age of Big Government; 7: Equality, Spending Limits, and the Growth of Government; 2: The Culture of Budgeting; 8: Toward a Comparative Theory of Budgetary Processes; 9: Prologue to Planning and Budgeting in Poor Countries; 10: The Movement toward Spending Limits in American and Canadian Budgeting; 11: The Transformation of Budgetary Norms; 12: A Cultural Theory of Expenditure Growth and (Un)Balaneed Budgets; 13: The Budget as New Social Contract; 14: On the Balance of Budgetary Cultures; 3: Budgeting and Governing; 15: Securing Budgetary Convergence within the European Community without Central Direction; 16: If You Can’t Budget, How Can You Govern?; Postscript: Aaron Wildavsky, Cultural Theory, and Budgeting
