Public Budgeting and Finance, Fourth Edition,Robert T. Golembiewski This incomparable Fourth Edition of a standard reference/text has been thoroughly updated and enlarged -- offering comprehensive coverage of the field in a single source and incorporating entirely new as well as time-tested material. |
Contents
Historical Contexts of Budgeting and Finance | 1 |
Fiscal Management | 69 |
The Deficit and LongTerm Damage to the Economy | 83 |
The 199091 Recession in Historical Perspective | 103 |
The Evolution of the American Property Tax | 127 |
The Stages of Budget Reform | 143 |
A Conjectural Footnote | 163 |
Conceptual Contexts of Budgeting and Finance | 181 |
The Nature of Models | 475 |
Theory Structure and Limitations | 489 |
Analytic Choices in Budgetary Theory | 505 |
Political Dimensions of Federal Budgeting in the United States | 521 |
Administrative Contexts of Budgeting and Finance | 547 |
Management and Control of Budget Execution | 575 |
An Inquiry into the Feasibility of a National Accounting Policy for Public | 609 |
Capital Asset Financing | 633 |
Management Uses of Figures | 203 |
Ethics in Public Budgeting and Financial | 211 |
Budgeting and Culture | 227 |
Comparative Government Budgeting | 243 |
Institutional Contexts of Budgeting and Finance | 267 |
Budget Reforms | 273 |
The Budget System and Concepts of the United States Government | 295 |
Congress and the Politics of Statutory Debt Limitation | 313 |
Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in the 1980s | 337 |
Its Origin Expansion and Dilemma | 347 |
The Case of the Congressional | 359 |
Economic Contexts of Budgeting and Finance | 371 |
The New Political Economy of Monetary Policy | 377 |
Concept and Oversight | 385 |
Budget Uncontrollability as an Obstacle to Improving the Allocation | 415 |
Calculations Causes and Impacts | 427 |
Strategic Contexts of Budgeting and Finance | 445 |
Pros and Cons of a Separate Capital Budget for the Federal Government | 653 |
What Budgeting Means to People | 669 |
An Expectancy Theory Approach to the Motivational Impacts of Budgets | 699 |
Functional Analysis and Behavioral Implications | 715 |
Behavioral Assumptions of Management Accounting | 731 |
Accountancy as a Function of Organization Theory | 747 |
Organization Models of Social Program Implementation | 765 |
A Policy | 785 |
Two Superoptimum Solutions in a Cutback Mode | 799 |
Technical Contexts of Budgeting and Finance | 831 |
Updating the Approach to Administrative Behavior as Intent and Content | 861 |
The Political Economy of Efficiency Has Not Changed But the World | 891 |
Why Do Forecasts Differ? | 909 |
CostBenefit Analysis and Administrative Legitimation | 925 |
An Analytical | 963 |
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