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Balancing the federal budget : eating the seed corn or trimming the herds? / Irene S. Rubin.
LIBRA HJ2051 .R82 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rubin, Irene.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Budget--United States--History--20th century.
- Budget.
- Administrative agencies--United States--Finance--History--20th century.
- Administrative agencies.
- Government spending policy--United States--History--20th century.
- Government spending policy.
- History.
- Finance.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 318 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Chatham House Publishers/Seven Bridges Press, [2003]
- Contents:
- 1. 1981-98: Balancing the Budget: What Have We Learned? 1
- Why Balance the Budget: Defining the Problem 2
- Learning How to Balance the Budget 7
- 2. What Happened and What Was Learned 29
- What Have We Learned: The Lessons of the Late 1970s and Early 1980s 33
- What We Have Not Learned 47
- Part 1 Eating the Seed Corn?
- 3. Information Agencies: Bureau of Labor Statistics and Bureau of the Census 67
- Bureau of Labor Statistics 69
- Census 82
- 4. Budget Offices 97
- Congressional Budget Office 99
- Office of Management and Budget 109
- 5. General Accounting Office 123
- Vulnerability 125
- Criticisms of the Agency's Performance 126
- Budget History 127
- Agency Responses 127
- Impacts 138
- Agency Strategies 145
- Part 2 Trimming the Herds?
- 6. Department of Agriculture 153
- The USDA 154
- The Reorganization Plan 163
- 1996 Simplification of Authorizing Legislation 167
- Matching Workload, Program Complexity, and Staffing Levels 170
- 7. Department of Commerce 178
- Budget Cuts, Threats of Termination, and Response 182
- Department-wide Responses 183
- EDA: Cuts, Threats of Termination, and Adaptation 197
- PTO: User Fees and Deficit Reduction 201
- NOAA 206
- 8. Department of Housing and Urban Development 220
- The Reagan Years 224
- The Scandals 226
- The Clinton Administration 229
- Consequences 236
- Earmarking and Boutique Programs 242
- Monitoring and Evaluation 245
- Constituencies and Advocacy 248
- 9. Office of Personnel Management 252
- The Reagan Years 256
- The National Performance Review: Phases 1 and 2 258
- Reorganization 268
- Assessment 270
- 10. Eating the Seed Corn and Trimming the Herds 276
- Budget Process and Tradeoffs 277
- Defining Core Functions 284
- Responding to Staffing Reductions: Increased Efficiency and Contracting Out 288
- Duration 290
- Strategies 292
- Learning 294.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [296]-309) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1889119628
- OCLC:
- 48390632
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