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Title: Public Budgeting in the United States
Condition: New
Subtitle: The Cultural and Ideological Setting
Author: Steven G. Koven
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0878407529
EAN: 9780878407521
ISBN: 9780878407521
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Genre: Law & Politics
Topic: Business & Finance
Release Date: 07/09/1999
Description: Budgeting has long been considered a rational process using neutral tools of financial management, but this outlook fails to consider the outside influences on leaders' behavior. Steven G. Koven shows that political culture (moralistic, traditionalistic, individualistic) and ideological orientations (liberal vs. conservative) are at least as important as financial tools in shaping budgets. Koven examines budget formation at the national, state, and local levels to demonstrate the strong influence of attitudes about how public money should be generated and spent. In addition to statistical data, this book includes recent case studies: the 1997 budget agreement; Governor George W. Bush's use of the budget process to advance a conservative policy agenda in the state of Texas; and, Mayor Marion Barry's abuses of power in Washington, D.C. Koven demonstrates that administrative principles are at best an incomplete guide for public officials and that budgeters must learn to interpret signals from the political environment.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Weight: 254g
Book Series: Texts and Teaching/Politics, Policy, Administration series
Release Year: 1999

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