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

Irene S. Rubin

ISBN 10: 1604264616 / ISBN 13: 9781604264616

Verlag: CQ Press, 2009

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Politics of Public Budgeting: Getting and Spending, Borrowing and Balancing
• Verlag: CQ Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1604264616
• ISBN-13: 9781604264616
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: Very Good

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Inhaltsangabe

Public budgeting is inherently political: too often, short-term partisan goals overrun long-term public interest. By presenting federal, state, and local budgeting within a clear, comparative framework, Rubin&BAD:rsquo;s classic text focuses on the issues of federalism and the political jockeying that influences all governmental budgets. Updated throughout to account for recent issues in budgeting, the sixth edition includes coverage of the Alternative Minimum Tax controversy, mayoral vetoes, state legislatures&BAD:rsquo; role in the budgeting process, conflicts between inspectors general and executives, PART evaluations, and more. In addition, Rubin now pays even greater attention to budgeting within state and local systems, incorporating examples from across the nation and better preparing students for future careers at all levels of government. Analyzing each strand of the decision-making process, Rubin shows the extraordinary coordination involved in passing a budget and achieving accountability.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Irene S. Rubin is Professor Emeritus of Public Administration at Northern Illinois University.  She is the author of Running in the Red: The Political Dynamics of Urban Fiscal Stress, Shrinking the Federal Government, Class Tax and Power: Municipal Budgeting in the United States, and Balancing the Federal Budget: Eating the Seed Corn or Trimming the Herds, all four of which rely extensively on qualitative interviews.  She has written journal articles about citizen participation in local level government in Thailand, how universities adapt when their budgets are cut, and fights between legislative staffers and elected and appointed officials about unworkable policy proposals, all based on qualitative interviews.  She is in the middle of an interviewing project about how local officials view and use contracts with the private sector and with other governmental units to provide public services.