Budgeting and governing / Aaron Wildavsky ; edited by Brendon Swedlow and an introduction by Joseph White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wildavsky, Aaron B.

Contributor:

Swedlow, Brendon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Budget.

Finance, Public.

Budget--United States.

United States.

Finance, Public--United States.

Physical Description:

xxii, 371 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J., U.S.A. : Transaction Publishers, [2001]

Contents:

Part 1 Making Budgets

1. A Budget for All Seasons?: Why the Traditional Budget Lasts 3

2. The Political Economy of Efficiency: Cost Benefit Analysis, Systems Analysis, and Program Budgeting 21

3. Rescuing Policy Analysis 49

4. Toward a Radical Incrementalism 71

5. The Annual Expenditure Increment 111

6. Budgetary Reform in an Age of Big Government 133

7. Equality, Spending Limits, and the Growth of Government 163

Part 2 The Culture of Budgeting

8. Toward a Comparative Theory of Budgetary Processes 179

9. Planning and Budgeting in Poor Countries 199

10. The Movement toward Spending Limits in American and Canadian Budgeting 215

11. The Transformation of Budgetary Norms 235

12. A Cultural Theory of Expenditure Growth and (Un)balanced Budgets 249

13. The Budget as New Social Contract 259

14. On the Balance of Budgetary Cultures 277

Part 3 Budgeting and Governing

15. Securing Budgetary Convergence Within the European Community 313

16. If You Can't Budget, How Can You Govern? 325.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0765800330

OCLC:

44775081