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Foreword \\ Acknowledgments \\ CHAPTER 1: The Politics of Public Budgets \\ What is Budgeting? \\ Governmental Budgeting \\ Minicase: City Manager Replies to Scathing Budget Critique \\ Minicase: Missouri Constitutional Amendment Reduces Governor’s Powers \\ Minicase: Young Protesters in Court \\ Minicase: The Courts and New Jersey Pension Reform \\ Minicase: The Federal Debt Limit as a Constraint \\ Minicase: Highly Constrained Budgeting—Colorado’s TABOR Amendment \\ The Meaning of Politics in Public Budgeting \\ Budgetary Decision-Making \\ Microbudgeting and Macrobudgeting \\ Summary and Conclusions \\ Useful Websites \\ CHAPTER 2: Revenue Politics \\ Raising Taxes \\ Minicase: Supermajorities to Raise Taxes \\ Minicase: Louisiana—Getting Around the No-Tax-Increase Pledge \\ Minicase: A Tax Increase in Philadelphia \\ The Politics of Protection \\ Minicase: Wisconsin and Unexamined Tax Breaks \\ Minicase: Illinois and the Role of the Press \\ Minicase: Tax Breaks for Hedge Fund Managers \\ Minicase: California and Enterprise Zone Tax Breaks \\ Minicase: North Carolina and Business Tax Breaks \\ Minicase: Michigan—Terminating its Film Subsidy \\ Minicase: New Mexico and Tax Expenditure Reporting \\ Tax Reform \\ Minicase: Georgia Tax Reform Left Hanging \\ Minicase: Michigan Tax Reform or Class Warfare? \\ Minicase: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: Is it a Tax Reform? \\ Summary and Conclusions \\ Useful Websites \\ CHAPTER 3: The Politics of Process \\ Budget Process and the Characteristics of Public Budgeting \\ Minicase: Harrisburg—Whose Priorities Dominate? \\ Designing Process to Achieve Policy and Political Goals \\ Macro- and Micropolitics \\ Minicase: Republican Macrolevel Reform Proposals \\ Minicase: Micropolitics—Bending the Rules to Win Individual Decisions \\ Minicase: How the Governor’s Veto is Used \\ Variation between and among Federal, State, and Local Governments \\ Minicase: Maine—The Governor versus the Legislature \\ Minicase: Limits of Governor’s Vetoes in New Mexico \\ Minicase: San Diego—Fiscal Problems, Strong Mayor, and Veto Powers \\ Summary and Conclusions \\ Useful Websites \\ CHAPTER 4: The Dynamics of Changing Budget Processes \\ Overview \\ Minicase: New York State—Powerful Governor, Weak Legislature, Informal Budgeting \\ Minicase: The Governor versus the Courts \\ Federal Budget Process Changes \\ Minicase: Deeming Resolutions and Ad Hoc Budgeting \\ Minicase: Ad Hoc Scoring Rules \\ Minicase: Overseas Contingency Operations \\ Minicase: Budget Process Reform 2018? \\ Changes in Budget Process at the State Level \\ Minicase: Maryland’s Legislative Budget Power \\ Minicase: South Carolina’s Legislatively Dominated Budget Process Begins to Budge \\ Minicase: The Executive and the Legislature in Florida’s Budgeting \\ Changes in Budget Process at the Local Level \\ Minicase: Florida and Unfunded Mandates \\ Summary and Conclusions \\ Useful Websites \\ CHAPTER 5: Expenditures: Strategies, Structures, and the Environment \\ Strategies \\ Minicase: A $17,000 Drip Pan \\ Minicase: Homeland Security—A Program Tied to a Goal of Unlimited Worth \\ Minicase: Amtrak Train Wreck \\ Minicase: Congressional Budget Office and Scoring \\ Structure \\ Minicase: Budgetary Implications of Direct College Loans versus Loan Guarantees \\ Minicase: An Open-Ended Discretionary Program—Immigration Enforcement \\ Minicase: Trump, Immigration Enforcement, and the Threat of Grant Denial \\ Minicase: California and Mandatory Spending on Redevelopment Agencies \\ Minicase: Fannie and Freddie: Government Bailout, a Loan, or Investment? \\ Minicase: New Jersey’s Fund Diversion from the Unemployment Insurance Fund \\ The Environment \\ Strategy, Structure, and Environment Combined: The Medicare Example \\ Summary and Conclusions \\ Useful Websites \\ CHAPTER 6: The Politics of Balancing the Budget \\ Defining the Balance Constraint \\ Minicase: Was the Wisconsin Budget Balanced? \\ Minicase: Balance in the Federal Highway Trust Fund \\ Minicase: Illinois Funds Sweep \\ Multiple Actors, Ideologies, and Deficits \\ The Environment, Unpredictability, and Deficits \\ Increasing Stress between Payer and Decider \\ Minicase: Chicago’s Parking Meters \\ Minicase: Iowa’s Privatization of Medicaid \\ The Politics of Deficits: The Federal Level \\ The Politics of Deficits: States \\ Minicase: Detroit Bankruptcy \\ Minicase: Why Did Jefferson County, Alabama, Declare Bankruptcy? \\ The Politics of Balance in Cities \\ Minicase: The Politics of Deficits—An Urban Example \\ Summary and Conclusions \\ Useful Websites \\ CHAPTER 7: Budget Execution: The Politics of Adaptation \\ Tools for Changing the Budget \\ Minicase: Policy Deferrals in the Department of State \\ Minicase: Using Holdbacks to Change Legislative Priorities—Maryland \\ Minicase: Herbert Hoover and Legislative Vetoes \\ Minicase: The National Weather Service Reprogramming \\ Summary and Conclusions \\ Useful Websites \\ CHAPTER 8: Controlling Waste, Fraud, and Abuse \\ Minicase: Congressional Oversight and the Zombie Apocalypse \\ Inspectors General \\ The Politics of Finding Waste, Fraud, and Abuse \\ Minicase: Louisiana Inspector General \\ Minicase: President Obama Fires an IG \\ Minicase: Who Guards the Guards? Not the Guards Themselves \\ Minicase: Acting IG for Homeland Security—Too Close to the Department \\ Minicase: The Massachusetts Inspector General Versus the Governor \\ Minicase: New York State and Medicaid \\ Minicase: Baltimore’s Departing IG \\ Auditors General \\ Summary and Conclusions \\ Useful Websites \\ CHAPTER 9: Budgetary Decision-Making and Politics \\ Real-Time Budgeting \\ A Comparison of the Decision-Making Streams \\ Common Themes \\ Reconceptualizing Reform \\ Avenues for Research \\ Summary and Conclusions \\ Useful Websites \\ Notes \\ Author Index \\ Subject Index \\ About the Author

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