Policy and Politics in State Budgeting
This book accomplishes two goals. First, it provides an in-depth description
of budgetary politics and policy-making in state budget offices. The data
rendered in these chapters fills a significant gap in our understanding of state
budget processes, and how budgeting and policy-making are linked in state
budget offices. Except for a few important attempts in the early 1960s, very
little is written about state budget office activities, which is surprising given
their crucial position at the nexus of budgeting and policy-making in many
states. The stories we tell here help public administration and political science
scholars understand how we get collective budgetary choices, how state
budget examiners influence those...