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Informationen zum Autor 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. The book gives attention to all levels of government budgeting--state, local and federal--and includes over 50 mini-cases that provide glimpses into the real world of public budgeting. 1. The Politics of Public Budgets What Is Budgeting? Governmental Budgeting The Meaning of Politics in Public Budgeting Budgetary Decision Making Microbudgeting and Macrobudgeting Summary and Conclusions Useful Websites2. Revenue Politics Raising Taxes The Politics of Protection Tax Reform Summary and Conclusions Useful Websites3. The Politics of Process Budget Process and the Characteristics of Public Budgeting Macro and Micro Politics Designing Process to Achieve Policy and Political Goals Variation between and among Federal, State, and Local Governments Summary and Conclusions Useful Websites4. The Dynamics of Changing Budget Processes Overview Federal Budget Process Changes Changes in Budget Process at the State Level Changes in Budget Process at the Local Level Summary and Conclusions Useful Websites5. Expenditures: Strategies, Structures, and the Environment Strategies Structure The Environment Strategy, Structure, and Environment Combined: The Medicare Example Summary and Conclusions Useful Websites6. The Politics of Balancing the Budget Balance as a Constraint Multiple Actors, Ideologies, and Deficits The Environment, Unpredictability, and Deficits Increasing Stress between Payer and Decider The Politics of Deficits: The Federal Level The Politics of Deficits: States The Politics of Balance in Cities Summary and Conclusions Useful Websites7. Budget Execution: The Politics of Adaptation Tools for Changing the Budget Summary and Conclusions Useful Websites8. Budget Implementation and Control The Discretion-Abuse-Control Cycle Discretion and Control: The Politics of Finding Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Summary and Conclusions Useful Websites9. Budgetary Decision Making and Politics Real-Time Budgeting A Comparison of the Decision-Making Streams Common Themes Reconceptualizing Reform Avenues for Research Summary and Conclusions Useful Websites ...
