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 topically rather than historically, with an effort to delineate the issues needed to understand some of the more recent controversies in the field. Rubin’s introductory essay and section openers frame the key issues and provide historical context for each article. The collection begins with descriptions of what public budgeting is, where it comes from, and what it is for. It moves on to the relationship between budget processes and outcomes, constraints on budgeting, the legal context in which it operates, and adaptations to those constraints such as contracting out. The book concludes with a discussion of the ethics and norms that underlie budgeting in a democracy. Throughout the anthology, the emphasis is on areas of disagreement and debate, so students can get involved and explore different viewpoints.

Public Budgeting: Policy, Process, and Politics

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Product DescriptionFinancial Accountability and Management aims to advance the academic understanding, original research and policy debate in respect of the efficient, effective and equitable conduct of financial accountability and management in governments, public services and charities. FAM covers organizations largely insulated from market forces and operating without a profit-maximising or profit-distributing objective, and having social objectives not easily captured in purely financial performance assessments. FAM seeks to be inter-disciplinary and welcomes insight from economics, political science, social and public administration, and management sciences, to meld with accounting and finance in improving the planning, monitoring and control of all types of not-for-profit organizations. CONTENTS: 1) The Sustainable Growth Rate of Non-Profit Organizations: The Effect of Efficiency, Profitability and Capital Structure 2) Testing Rival Theories of Budgetary Decision-making in the US States 3)Financial Management Strategy in a Community Welfare Organization: A Boardroom Perspective 4) Does Learning Matter for Knee Replacement Surgeries? Data Evidence from a German hosital. 5)A Lot of Friction at the Interfaces: The Regulation of Britain’s Privatised Railway System

Financial Accountability and Management in Governments, Public Services and Charities

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Product DescriptionA complete and balanced reference, Public Budgeting Systems, Eighth Edition surveys the current state of budgeting throughout all levels of the United States government. The text emphasizes methods by which financial decisions are reached within a system as well as ways in which different types of information are used in budgetary decision-making. It also stresses the use of program information, since, for decades, budget reforms have sought to introduce greater program considerations into financial decisions. This updated text includes: More cases studies and practical information Figures and charts to make the information more accessible PowerPoint slides for professors Using this text, students will gain a first-rate understanding of methods by which financial decisions are reached within a system, and how different types of information are used in budgetary decision-making.

Public Budgeting Systems

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Product DescriptionThis digital document is an article from Government Finance Review, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2006. The length of the article is 4991 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon. com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: A private sector solution for an enduring public sector problem?(ONLINE BUDGETING TECHNOLOGY)(corporate performance management helps government in budgeting)(Cover story)Author: Shayne C. KavanaghPublication: Government Finance Review (Magazine/Journal)Date: December 1, 2006Publisher: Thomson GaleVolume: 22 Issue: 6 Page: 8(9)Article Type: Cover storyDistributed by Thomson Gale

A private sector solution for an enduring public sector problem?(Cover … An article from: Government Finance Review

Frugal Living Guide A private sector solution for an enduring public sector problem?(Cover … An article from: Government Finance Review

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, always sensitive to the power struggles between the different branches and levels of government. How much control is exerted from above and what degree of autonomy can be found at each level of government? What kind of influence do elected officials wield over government priorities? How do we resolve the tension between patronage, pork, and tax breaks necessary for reelection and the requirements of balance, technical efficiency, and prioritization? Analyzing each strand of the decision-making process, Rubin shows the extraordinary coordination involved in passing a budget and achieving some level of accountability. By moving beyond the simplistic and rigid “executive proposal and legislative disposal” cycle other books follow, Rubin explores shifts in power over time and explains decisions that do not always flow in a linear fashion. A thorough revision at every turn, updates include: the return to massive deficits at the federal level, requiring more attention on the relationship between budget process and outcomes the resurgence of secrecy in recent years, looking at how and why the level of transparency decreases at some times and increases at others the implications of 9/11, exploring the impact of funding wars in Afghanistan and Iraq the difficulty of getting Inspectors General sufficient independence and cooperation to implement their work, showing how these officials are “straddling a barbed wire fence” over twenty new minicase studies

The Politics Of Public Budgeting: Getting and Spending, Borrowing and Balancing, 5th Edition

Frugal Living Guide The Politics Of Public Budgeting: Getting and Spending, Borrowing and Balancing, 5th Edition

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