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Strategic Budgeting - Softcover

Meyers, Roy T.

 
9780472084142: Strategic Budgeting
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0472084143 ISBN 13: 9780472084142
Publisher: University of Michigan Press, 1996

Synopsis

Strategic Budgeting offers a new way to understand how federal budget deficits developed. Rejecting the incrementalist theory of budgetary strategy, this study focuses on the micro level -- the competitive process of budgeting for individual programs -- to advance a theory based on the changing structural characteristics of the budgetary process itself. The book illustrates how advocates for spending have creatively taken advantage of flawed accounting practices to make costs less visible and documents how they designed programs to avoid budgetary controls. Strategic Budgeting also shows how controllers reacted to these tactics by improving accounting rules and budget procedures. The book concludes with practical recommendations for improving the process of budgeting for individual programs.

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About the Author

Roy T. Meyers is Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Maryland, Baltimore.

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Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Publication date
1996
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0472084143
ISBN 13 
9780472084142
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
248