Foreword
Acknowledgments
CHAPTER 1: The Politics of Public Budgets
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
CHAPTER 2: Revenue Politics
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
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?
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
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
CHAPTER 4: The Dynamics of Changing Budget Processes
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
CHAPTER 5: Expenditures: Strategies, Structures, and the Environment
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
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
Strategy, Structure, and Environment Combined: The Medicare Example
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
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
CHAPTER 8: Controlling Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
Minicase: Congressional Oversight and the Zombie Apocalypse
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
CHAPTER 9: Budgetary Decision-Making and Politics
A Comparison of the Decision-Making Streams
Notes
Author Index
Subject Index
About the Author
