Budgetary politics in American governments / James J. Gosling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gosling, James J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Budget--United States.

Budget.

Municipal budgets.

United States.

Local budgets--United States.

Local budgets.

Municipal budgets--United States.

Physical Description:

ix, 259 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Sixth edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business, 2016.

Summary:

This comprehensive book describes and analyzes the substance and politics of public budgeting at the national, state, and local levels of government. In doing so, it takes a comparative approach, illustrating the distinctiveness of budgeting at each level, as well as highlighting the features common to ad three. A unifying focus is the extent to which budgetary decision makers use the budget as a central vehicle to advance their policy preferences. This fully updated sixth edition provides an extensive and thorough analysis of the causes of the Great Recession, its economic consequences, and the policy responses which pushed the boundaries of conventional monetary and fiscal policy. Also new to this edition is a chapter on the intergovernmental dimensions of public budgeting, along with boxed features highlighting hands-on vignettes of contemporary practical challenges facing budget makers at the different levels of government. Book jacket.

Contents:

Public budgeting in perspective

Budgetary decision making

Budget organization and structure

Economics and politics

Taxing and spending

National budgeting

Budgeting in the states

Budgeting in local units of government

Fiscal federalism and intergovernmental fiscal relations

Budget execution and financial management.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138923430

1138923435

9781138923423

1138923427

OCLC:

912378173