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Public Budgeting

by: Nice, David C.

Public Budgeting

by: Nice, David C.

ISBN 13:
9780830415151
ISBN 10:
0830415157
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 10/09/2001
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Summary

The author's primary emphasis is on the national budgeting process, with additional coverage of state and local processes. His goal is to bridge the gap between public budgeting and public finance/financial administration.

Preface

The Nature of Public Budgeting

(18)

What Is Public Budgeting?

(1)

What Are Budgets Expected to Do?

(3)

Setting Goals and Priorities

(1)

Linking Goals to Actions

(1)

Managing the Economy

(1)

Promoting Accountability

(1)

Controlling the Use of Public Resources

(1)

Promoting Efficiency and Effectiveness

(1)

Social Planning and Reform

(1)

Keeping the Process Manageable

(1)

Theories of Public Budgeting

(4)

Incrementalism

(2)

Rational Decision Making

(1)

Political Influence

(1)

Economics Shapes Budgets

(1)

Procedures Shape Budgets

(1)

Budget Strategies

(3)

Cultivating Clientele Support

(1)

Gaining the Trust of Others

(1)

Documenting a Need

(1)

Looking for Sympathetic Decision Makers

(1)

Coping with Painful Actions

(1)

The ``Camel's Nose''

(1)

Making the Program Appear Self-Supporting

(1)

Capitalizing on Temporary Circumstances

(1)

Deception and Confusion

(1)

Minimizing the Risk of Future Cuts

(1)

Coping with Complexity and Conflict

(4)

Incrementalism

(1)

Fair Shares

(1)

Separate Pools

(1)

Division of Labor

(1)

Avoiding Programmatic Decisions

(1)

Postponement

(1)

Assumptions behind Coping Mechanisms

(1)

Concluding Thoughts

(2)

Government Revenues, Spending, and Borrowing: A Brief Overview

(16)

Growing Revenues and Expenditures

(1)

Accounting for Growth

(2)

Where the Money Comes from and Where It Goes

(5)

The National Level

(2)

The State Level

(2)

The Local Level

(1)

Intergovernmental Grants

(1)

The Growth of Government Debt

(2)

The Consequences of More Spending

(1)

Concluding Thoughts

(3)

The Budget Cycle: A Brief Introduction

(12)

Preparing a Budget Proposal

(2)

Enacting the Budget

(1)

Budget Execution

(1)

Review and Audit

(2)

Linkages across Budget Cycles

(4)

Within a Government

(2)

Across Different Governments

(2)

Concluding Thoughts

(2)

Budget Preparation

(22)

The Format of the Budget Proposal

(6)

Lump Sum Budgeting

(1)

Object-of Expenditure Budgeting

(1)

Performance Budgeting

(1)

Program Budgeting

(1)

Zero-Based Budgeting

(1)

Some Lessons from Experimenting with Different Budget Formats

(1)

Formulating the Proposal: Bottom-Up versus Top-Down Processes

(3)

Bottom-Up Processes

(1)

Top-Down Processes

(1)

Choosing a Process

(1)

Administrative Agencies in the Formulation Process

(1)

The President and Budget Proposals

(4)

The Changing Presidential Role

(1)

The Bureau of the Budget

(1)

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

(2)

Congress and Budget Formulation

(1)

Formulating Budget Proposals at the State and Local Levels

(2)

State Formulation

(1)

Local Formulation

(1)

Concluding Thoughts

(3)

Techniques of Budgetary Analysis

(18)

Forecasting: A Vital Task

(2)

Methods of Forecasting

(5)

Naive Projection

(1)

Simple Extrapolation

(1)

Time-Series Techniques

(1)

Multivariate Time-Series Analysis

(2)

Delphi Technique

(2)

Types of Policy Analysis

(7)

Needs Assessment

(1)

Specifying Goals and Values

(1)

Program Evaluation

(4)

Concluding Thoughts

(3)

Budget Adoption

(16)

Some Important Aspects of Budget Adoption

(1)

Budget Adoption in the National Government

(6)

Early Developments

(2)

The Middle Phase

(1)

The Recent Experience

(4)

Budget Adoption in the States

(3)

Major Developments

(1)

Complications in State Budgeting

(2)

Budget Adoption at the Local Level

(2)

Accounting for Adoption Decisions in Budgeting

100

(1)

Concluding Thoughts

101

(2)

Budget Execution

103

(16)

Modifying the Budget after It Is Adopted

104

(8)

Increasing Funding

106

(2)

Cutting the Budget

108

(3)

Reallocating Funds

111

(1)

Implementing the Budget: Some Nuts and Bolts

112

(4)

Apportionment and Allotment

113

(1)

Preaudits

114

(1)

Prior Approvals

114

(1)

Monitoring and Updating

115

(1)

An Anticipated Control: The Postaudit

115

(1)

Government-Sponsored Enterprises and Budgetary Implementation

116

(1)

Concluding Thoughts

116

(3)

Financial Management

119

(18)

Capital Budgeting

120

(3)

Techniques of Capital Budgeting

123

(3)

The Capital Improvement Plan

123

(1)

Financial Analysis

124

(1)

Reconciliation

125

(1)

Problematic Aspects of Capital Budgeting

126

(1)

Auditing and Accounting

127

(3)

Uses of Auditing and Accounting

127

(1)

Potential Problems

128

(1)

Some Changing Emphases

129

(1)

Debt Administration

130

(2)

The National Government

130

(1)

State and Local Government Debt

130

(2)

Cash Management

132

(2)

Some General Guidelines for Money Management

134

(1)

Concluding Thoughts

135

(2)

The Economy and the Budget

137

(22)

How the Economy Affects Government Budgets

138

(6)

Short-Term Economic Forces

138

(4)

Long-Term Economic Forces

142

(2)

Public Budgeting's Impact on the Economy

144

(3)

The Allocation Function

145

(1)

The Distribution Function

146

(1)

The Stabilization Function

146

(1)

Perspectives on the Role of Government in Shaping the Economy

147

(5)

Laissez-Faire

147

(2)

Mercantilism

149

(1)

Keynesian Economics

150

(1)

Supply-Side Economics

151

(1)

Tools for Stabilizing the Economy

152

(3)

Monetary Policy

152

(1)

Fiscal Policy

153

(2)

Promoting Economic Growth

155

(2)

Public Relations

156

(1)

Credit Assistance

156

(1)

Tax Reductions

156

(1)

Infrastructure Improvements

156

(1)

Foreign Trade Missions

157

(1)

Concluding Thoughts

157

(2)

Intergovernmental Aspects of Public Budgeting

159

(20)

Why Have Multiple Governments?

160

(2)

Problems with Budgeting with Multiple Governments

162

(1)

Intergovernmental Grants

163

(8)

Types of Intergovernmental Grants

165

(3)

The Impact of Grants

168

(3)

Other Financial Relationships among Levels of Government

171

(3)

Horizontal Dynamics in Fiscal Federalism

174

(1)

Mandates

175

(1)

Concluding Thoughts

176

(3)

The Frustration of Budget Reform

179

(14)

The Budget Reform Cycle

181

(2)

The Item Veto

183

(2)

Balanced Budget Laws

185

(1)

Gramm-Rudman-Hollings

186

(1)

The Appropriations Committees as a Budget Reform

186

(1)

Budget Reforms and Budget Reality: A Mismatch

187

(2)

Budget Reform as a Case of Institutional Nonlearning

189

(1)

The Wright Brothers Phenomenon

189

(1)

Reform as a Delaying Tactic

189

(1)

Reform as a Symbolic ``Remedy''

190

(1)

Concluding Thoughts

190

(3)

References

193

(14)

Index

207

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