The Politics of Public Budgeting: Getting and Spending, Borrowing and Balancing

by Rubin, Irene S.

• ISBN13: 9781889119427
• ISBN10: 1889119423
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Cq Pr

Table of Contents

Preface to the Fourth Edition	vii
Acknowledgments	x
The Politics of Public Budgets	1	(33)
What is Budgeting?	3	(3)
Governmental Budgeting	6	(18)
City Manager Replies to Scathing Budget Critique	8	(11)
The Government Performance and Results Act	19	(5)
The Meaning of Politics in Public Budgeting	24	(2)
Budgetary Decision Making	26	(3)
Microbudgeting and Macrobudgeting	29	(3)
Summary and Conclusions	32	(2)
Revenue Politics	34	(39)
Increasing Taxes	35	(9)
Income Tax Increases in Illinois	36	(1)
A Successful Municipal Tax Increase in Dayton, Ohio	37	(7)
The Politics of Protection	44	(24)
Legislature Denies Economic Development Incentives	62	(1)
The Politics of Tax Expenditures in Minnesota	63	(5)
The Politics of Reform	68	(3)
Summary and Conclusions	71	(2)
The Politics of Process	73	(25)
Macro and Micro Politics	74	(7)
Republican Macro-level Reform Proposals	74	(5)
Micro Politics: Bending the Rules to Win Individual Decisions	79	(2)
Public Budgeting and the Budget Process	81	(1)
Variable Elements of Budget Processes	82	(7)
Participatory Budgeting	86	(3)
Variation between and among Federal, State, and Local Governments	89	(7)
Summary and Conclusions	96	(2)
The Dynamics of Changing Budget Processes	98	(29)
Major Changes in the Federal Budget Process	100	(8)
Committee Response to Gramm-Rudman-Hollings	104	(4)
Changes in Budget Process at the State Level	108	(8)
Early Budget Evolution in Illinois	109	(4)
Illinois State Budgeting: The Governor and the Legislature	113	(2)
The Executive and the Legislature in Florida's Budgeting	115	(1)
Changes in Budget Process at the Local Level	116	(9)
Cleveland, Ohio	116	(7)
Target-based Budgeting in Tampa	123	(2)
Summary and Conclusions	125	(2)
The Politics of Expenditures: Managing Competition, Accountability, and Acceptability	127	(52)
Tradeoffs	128	(6)
Tradeoffs in the Budget under the Federal Budget Enforcement Act	128	(6)
Multiple Actors Compete for Spending Preferences	134	(6)
Budget Constraints Can Reduce Competition	140	(13)
Children's Amendment in San Francisco	141	(1)
Science Funding and Earmarking	142	(6)
Is Social Security Going Bust?	148	(2)
Taking the Highway Trust Fund Off Budget	150	(3)
The Environment Can Affect Spending Priorities	153	(2)
The Separation between Payer and Spender Requires Public Approval of Spending Choices	155	(21)
Federal Credit Reform	163	(7)
Between a (Little) Rock and a Hard Place: Siting and Funding a Presidential Library	170	(5)
The Impact of Being in a Secret Budget	175	(1)
Summary and Conclusions	176	(3)
The Politics of Balancing the Budget	179	(37)
Balance as a Constraint	181	(2)
Balance and the Highway Trust Fund	181	(2)
Multiple Actors, Ideologies, and Deficits	183	(2)
The Environment, Unpredictability, and Deficits	185	(2)
Increasing Stress between Payer and Decider	187	(3)
The Politics of Deficits: The Federal Level	190	(11)
Deficits in the States	201	(8)
Connecticut Cuts Back to Balance the Budget	202	(7)
The Politics of Balance in Cities	209	(5)
The Politics of Deficits: An Urban Example	212	(2)
Summary and Conclusions	214	(2)
Budget Execution: The Politics of Adaptation	216	(29)
Adapting to Economic Changes	218	(6)
Rock Island, Illinois	220	(2)
DeKalb, Illinois	222	(2)
Budgetary Changes for Noneconomic Reasons	224	(19)
Department of Defense and the O&M Budget	239	(4)
Summary and Conclusions	243	(2)
Budget Implementation and Control	245	(24)
The Discretion, Abuse, Control Cycle	245	(15)
Abuse and Controls at the Department of Defense	248	(3)
The Last Use of the M Funds?	251	(6)
Massachusetts Overcontrols the Cities, 1875-1933	257	(1)
Ohio's 1 Percent Law	258	(2)
Implementation and Control: The Politics of Finding Waste, Fraud, and Abuse	260	(7)
Tension at the CIA	263	(4)
Summary and Conclusions	267	(2)
Budgetary Decision Making and Politics	269	(16)
Real-time Budgeting	269	(4)
A Comparison of the Decision-making Streams	273	(1)
Dynamics of Budgeting over Time	274	(2)
Common Themes: The Roles of Competition and Secrecy	276	(2)
Reconceptualizing Reform	278	(3)
Avenues for Research	281	(2)
Summary and Conclusions	283	(2)
Notes	285	(16)
Name Index	301	(2)
Subject Index	303