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

by Rubin, Irene

• ISBN13: 9781933116068
• ISBN10: 1933116064
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-30
• Publisher: Cq Pr

Table of Contents

List of Tables, Figures, and Minicases	ix
Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xv
The Politics of Public Budgets	1	(36)
What Is Budgeting?	3	(3)
Governmental Budgeting	6	(22)
Minicase: Highly Constrained Budgeting---Colorado's TABOR Amendment	8	(2)
Minicase: City Manager Replies to Scathing Budget Critique	10	(11)
Minicase: The Government Performance and Results Act	21	(3)
Minicase: Doctoring Audit Reports	24	(2)
Minicase: Unfunded Mandates---No Child Left Behind	26	(2)
The Meaning of Politics in Public Budgeting	28	(2)
Budgetary Decision Making	30	(3)
Microbudgeting and Macrobudgeting	33	(3)
Summary and Conclusions	36	(1)
Revenue Politics	37	(38)
Raising Taxes	38	(8)
Minicase: Alabama Governor's $1.2 Billion Tax Increase Defeated	39	(2)
Minicase: A Successful Municipal Tax Increase in Dayton, Ohio	41	(5)
The Politics of Protection	46	(25)
Minicase: Tax Expenditures and the Battle over Offsets	58	(3)
Minicase: Boeing and Washington State	61	(3)
Minicase: Iowa---How a Tax Incentive Program Was Terminated	64	(5)
Minicase: State Tax Break Prohibitions and Evasion	69	(2)
The Politics of Reform	71	(2)
Summary and Conclusions	73	(2)
The Politics of Process	75	(27)
Budget Process and the Characteristics of Public Budgeting	76	(2)
Macro and Micro Politics	78	(7)
Minicase: Republican Macro-Level Reform Proposals	79	(4)
Minicase: Micro Politics---Bending the Rules to Win Individual Decisions	83	(2)
Designing Process to Achieve Policy and Political Goals	85	(8)
Minicase: How the Governor's Veto Is Used	90	(3)
Variation between and among Federal, State, and Local Governments	93	(8)
Summary and Conclusions	101	(1)
The Dynamics of Changing Budget Processes	102	(43)
Overview	103	(4)
Minicase: New York State and Pressure to Change the Formal Rules	104	(3)
Major Changes in the Federal Budget Process	107	(13)
Minicase: Ad Hoc Scoring Rules	118	(2)
Changes in Budget Process at the State Level	120	(11)
Minicase: Maryland's Legislative Budget Power	121	(4)
Minicase: Nevada---Legislative Access to Agency Budget Requests	125	(1)
Minicase: The Executive and the Legislature in Florida's Budgeting	126	(5)
Changes in Budget Process at the Local Level	131	(12)
Minicase: Florida and Unfunded Mandates	138	(5)
Summary and Conclusions	143	(2)
Expenditures: The Politics of Choice	145	(42)
Strategies of Agency Heads or Program Directors	147	(12)
Minicase: The Department of Housing and Urban Development and Boutique Programs	155	(3)
Minicase: The Economic Development Administration Uses Defense Funds	158	(1)
Top-Down Strategies	159	(21)
Minicase: Federal Trust Funds	162	(8)
Minicase: Calculating the Base in St. Paul, 2005	170	(6)
Minicase: Black Project Failure---The A-12 Navy Fighter Plane	176	(4)
The Environment Can Affect Spending Priorities	180	(3)
Minicase: The Aviation Trust Fund	181	(2)
Analysis: Accountability and Acceptability	183	(1)
Summary and Conclusions	184	(3)
The Politics of Balancing the Budget	187	(43)
Balance as a Constraint	189	(1)
Multiple Actors, Ideologies, and Deficits	190	(4)
Minicase: Balance in the Federal Highway Trust Fund	191	(3)
The Environment, Unpredictability, and Deficits	194	(2)
Increasing Stress between Payer and Decider	196	(4)
The Politics of Deficits: The Federal Level	200	(9)
Deficits in the States	209	(14)
Minicase: Wisconsin Confronts Deficits	210	(13)
The Politics of Balance in Cities	223	(5)
Minicase: The Politics of Deficits---An Urban Example	225	(3)
Summary and Conclusions	228	(2)
Budget Execution: The Politics of Adaptation	230	(19)
Tools for Changing the Budget	233	(14)
Minicase: Reprogramming in the Department of Defense	244	(3)
Summary and Conclusions	247	(2)
Budget Implementation and Control	249	(32)
The Discretion-Abuse-Control Cycle	249	(13)
Minicase: Abuse and Controls at the Department of Defense	253	(7)
Minicase: Massachusetts Overcontrols the Cities, 1875--1933	260	(2)
Discretion and Control: The Politics of Finding Waste, Fraud, and Abuse	262	(18)
Minicase: Homeland Security Inspector General Not Renewed	263	(4)
Minicase: Tension at the CIA	267	(13)
Summary and Conclusions	280	(1)
Budgetary Decision Making and Politics	281	(21)
Real-Time Budgeting	281	(4)
A Comparison of the Decision-Making Streams	285	(1)
Common Themes	286	(8)
Reconceptualizing Reform	294	(3)
Avenues for Research	297	(3)
Summary and Conclusions	300	(2)
Notes	302	(19)
Name Index	321	(2)
Subject Index	323