The Budget and Responsible Government: A Description and Interpretation of the Struggle for Responsible Government in the United States, With Special ... Laws Providing for Administrative Reorgani - Softcover

Cleveland, Frederick Albert

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ISBN 10: 1331888298 ISBN 13: 9781331888291

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Budget and Responsible Government: A Description and Interpretation of the Struggle for Responsible Government in the United States, With Special Reference to Recent Changes in State Constitutions and Statute Laws Providing for Administrative Reorganization and Budget Reform

I am glad to write a Foreword to this book. Mr. Cleveland I have known for a number of years. He is a pioneer in the reform Of the wasteful methods Of govern ment finance in municipal, state and the federal field. He is not a mere public accountant he is a student Of gov ernment, and he has thought out methods for avoiding the ordinarily Sloppy and irresponsible manner of man aging the public business in 'a Democracy, by giving to our ubiquitous sovereigns, the people, the knowledge which they should have Of the numerous monetary trans actions Of their agents in which they are interested. The great problem Of popular government on its practical side is to create machinery by which those for whom govern ment is carried on, and who should control and direct gov ernment in a large way, shall be advised of the facts, and upon those facts, correctly interpreted, shall exercise dis criminating criticism and ultimate decision. Mr. Cleve land rightly conceives that one of the great defects in the past which has led to wastefulness and ineffectiveness in government finance is the failure to keep the public thus advised. This leads to invisible government which does not make for either efficiency, economy or honesty. Mr. Cleveland regards a proper governmental budget as very important in eliminating invisible government.

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Excerpt from The Budget and Responsible Government: A Description and Interpretation of the Struggle for Responsible Government in the United States, With Special Reference to Recent Changes in State Constitutions and Statute Laws Providing for Administrative Reorganization and Budget Reform

Along with the discussion of a budget system and budgetary procedure in city, state and nation, which has progressed with growing intensity during the past fifteen years, there has been a wide range of practical experimentation in the application of the budget idea, especially in municipal and state governments in the United States. It seemed a few months ago when the National Budget Committee was organized and incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia, as a citizens' movement, that the time had come to have this experience summarized and interpreted by competent authorities, especially when the appointment of select committees of inquiry in both houses of Congress indicated that we were likely to have national legislation in the near future looking to the establishment of some kind of a national budget system.

The editor of this series was gratified to find that he could get Dr. Frederick A. Cleveland and Mr. Arthur E. Buck to undertake the task, and former President William Howard Taft to furnish an introduction to the volume. Dr. Cleveland is not only a pioneer but also the foremost authority in America on the subject of the budget. He has had an exceptional professional training and experience in the underlying political theories of democracy, and the technical problems of public accountancy. The whole budget movement in the United States owes much to his persevering activities, since he planned and installed the budget system of the great municipal government of New York City ten years and more ago, on a scale that almost rivalled in complexity and size of operations the business of the Federal Government not many decades ago.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1331888298
• ISBN 13: 9781331888291
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 444