Tag Archives: Politics
Public Budgeting: Policy, Process, and Politics
Product DescriptionSome of the best writings on public budgeting and finance can be found in the journals that ASPA publishes or sponsors. For this volume editor Irene Rubin has brought together the best of these articles – emerging classics that address the most important theoretical and practical problems underlying public budgeting. The anthology is organized [...]
The Politics Of Simple Living
Product DescriptionThis book calls for a new politics of simple living, and it describes specific policies, such as: Work-Time Choice: Today, most people have no choice but to take full-time jobs, because most part-time jobs have lower hourly pay and no benefits. We need policies that let us choose part-time work, so people have the [...]
The Politics Of Public Budgeting: Getting and Spending, Borrowing and Balancing, 5th Edition
Product DescriptionAs Irene Rubin has shown convincingly in past editions, public budgeting is inherently political. Short-term partisan goals overrun long-term public interest and democratic processes, eroding institutional and public capacity to address collective problems. By presenting federal, state, and local budgeting within a comparative framework, Rubin’s classic text gives explicit attention to issues of federalism, [...]