Public Budgeting and Finance,9780824793890

Public Budgeting and Finance

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Edition: 4th
ISBN13: 9780824793890
ISBN10: 0824793897
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1997-06-01
Publisher(s): Marcel Dekker Inc
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Table of Contents

Preface to the Fourth Edition iii(2)
Preface to the Third Edition v(2)
Preface to the Second Edition vii(2)
Preface to the First Edition ix
Unit I Historical Contexts of Budgeting and Finance 1(180)
1 The Budgetary Time Line: History Is Destiny
7(62)
Jack Rabin
2 Fiscal Management
69(14)
President's Committee on Administrative Management
3 The Deficit and Long-Term Damage to the Economy
83(20)
U.S. General Accounting Office
4 The 1990-91 Recession in Historical Perspective
103(24)
Stephen K. McNees
5 The Evolution of the American Property Tax
127(16)
Glenn W. Fisher
6 The Road to PPB: The Stages of Budget Reform
143(20)
Allen Schick
7 A Micropolitical Perspective on Rational Budgeting: A Conjectural Footnote on the Dissemination of PPBS
163(18)
Robert T. Golembiewski
Patrick Scott
Unit II Conceptual Contexts of Budgeting and Finance 181(86)
8 Budgeting: Theory and Concepts
185(18)
Irene S. Rubin
9 Management Uses of Figures
203(8)
Herbert Simon
George Kozmetsky
Harold Guetzkow
Gordon Tyndall
10 Power Without Privilege: Ethics in Public Budgeting and Financial Management
211(16)
Carol W. Lewis
11 Budgeting and Culture
227(16)
Aaron Wildavsky
12 Comparative Government Budgeting
243(24)
George M. Guess
Unit III Institutional Contexts of Budgeting and Finance 267(104)
13 Budget Reforms
273(22)
Joseph C. Pilegge
14 The Budget System and Concepts of the United States Government
295(18)
U.S. Office of Management
Budget, Executive Office of the President
15 Congress and the Politics of Statutory Debt Limitation
313(24)
Linda K. Kowalcky
Lance T. LeLoup
16 Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in the 1980s
337(10)
Kenneth T. Palmer
Matthew C. Moen
17 The General Accounting Office: Its Origin, Expansion, and Dilemma
347(12)
James A. Stever
18 Reconciling Politics and Budget Analysis: The Case of the Congressional Budget Office
359(12)
R. Philip Twogood
Unit IV Economic Contexts of Budgeting and Finance 371(74)
19 The New Political Economy of Monetary Policy
377(8)
Thomas Havrilesky
20 Tax Expenditures: Concept and Oversight
385(30)
Jean Harris
21 Budget "Uncontrollability" as an Obstacle to Improving the Allocation of Government Resources
415(12)
Murray L. Weidenbaum
22 Budget Deficits in China: Calculations, Causes, and Impacts
427(18)
Huaping Luo
Robert T. Golembiewski
Unit V Strategic Contexts of Budgeting and Finance 445(102)
23 Certainty and Uncertainty in Decision Making: A Conceptualization
449(26)
Jeffrey A. Weber
24 The Nature of Models
475(14)
R. D. Specht
25 PPBS: Theory, Structure, and Limitations
489(16)
Jack Rabin
26 The Myth of Incrementalism: Analytic Choices in Budgetary Theory
505(16)
Lance T. LeLoup
27 Political Dimensions of Federal Budgeting in the United States
521(26)
Steven Parker
Unit VI Administrative Contexts of Budgeting and Finance 547(118)
28 Matching Responsibilities with Tactics: Administrative Controls and Modern Government
551(24)
Fred Thompson
29 Management and Control of Budget Execution
575(10)
Carol K. Johansen
L. R. Jones
Fred Thompson
30 Governmental Auditing
585(24)
Khi V. Thai
31 An Inquiry into the Feasibility of a National Accounting Policy for Public Schools
609(10)
C. William Garner
32 Government Contracting and Procurement: A Critical Process for Both the Public and Private Sectors
619(14)
Susan A. MacManus
33 Capital Asset Financing
633(20)
Gerald J. Miller
34 Pros and Cons of a Separate Capital Budget for the Federal Government
653(12)
Charles A. Bowsher
Unit VII Behavioral Contexts of Budgeting and Finance 665(78)
35 What Budgeting Means to People
669(6)
Chris Argyris
36 Work Motivation
675(24)
Hal G. Rainey
37 An Expectancy Theory Approach to the Motivational Impacts of Budgets
699(16)
J. Ronen
J. L. Livingstone
38 Budgeting: Functional Analysis and Behavioral Implications
715(16)
V. Bruce Irvine
39 Behavioral Assumptions of Management Accounting
731(12)
Edwin H. Caplan
Unit VIII Organizational Contexts of Budgeting and Finance 743(88)
40 Accountancy as a Function of Organization Theory
747(10)
Robert T. Golembiewski
41 Progress, Persisting Trends, and Future Challanges: Accountancy as a Function of Organization Theory
757(8)
Robert T. Golembiewski
42 Organization Models of Social Program Implementation
765(20)
Richard F. Elmore
43 Shaping State-Based Financial Policy in an Era of Change: A Policy and Research Perspective on City Size
785(14)
John M. Stevens
Josephine M. LaPlante
44 Two Superoptimum Solutions in a Cutback Mode
799(12)
Robert T. Golembiewski
45 Financing Strategy
811(20)
W. Bartley Hildreth
Unit IX Technical Contexts of Budgeting and Finance 831(144)
46 Simon's Administrative Behavior as Intent and Content
835(26)
Robert T. Golembiewski
47 Updating the Approach to Administrative Behavior as Intent and Content
861(8)
Robert T. Golembiewski
48 The Political Economy of Efficiency: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Systems Analysis, and Program Budgeting
869(22)
Aaron Wildavsky
49 The Political Economy of Efficiency Has Not Changed, But the World Has and So Have I
891(6)
Aaron Wildavsky
50 Uses and Abuses of Analysis
897(12)
James R. Schlesinger
51 Why Do Forecasts Differ?
909(16)
Stephen K. McNees
52 Cost-Benefit Analysis and Administrative Legitimation
925(18)
Robert C. Zinke
53 Decision-Making Orientations of State Government Budget Analysts: Rationalists or Incrementalists?
943(20)
Katherine G. Willoughby
54 Capital Rationing, Priority Setting, and Budget Decisions: An Analytical Guide for Public Managers
963(12)
Aman Khan
Author Index 975(20)
Subject Index 995

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