The Power of the Purse Strings: Do Congressional Budget Procedures Restrain?

Forgette, Richard

ISBN 10: 0275947386 / ISBN 13: 9780275947385

Published by Praeger, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Power of the Purse Strings: Do Congressional Budget Procedures Restrain?
• Publisher: Praeger
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0275947386
• ISBN 13: 9780275947385
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Like New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

In an era of unprecedented budget problems, can Congress establish legislative procedures to facilitate making politically difficult budget decisions? If we keep fixing the process, why are the policies and politics so fouled up? This book provides an extensive answer to these questions. Focusing exclusively on the House of Representatives, the author assesses whether current congressional budget procedures, namely the 302 process and reconciliation, have been created, designed, and maintained to achieve greater budget restraint. He defines the critical concept of procedural budget restraint as a procedural outcome in which spending decisions are less than what would have occurred in the absence of the procedure.

About the Author

RICHARD FORGETTE is currently Assistant Professor of Political Science at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is the author of a number of articles on legislative policy making and congressional voting behavior.