"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.
" Meyers] spent much of the 1980s as an analyst for the
Congressional Budget Office, and so he knows just about every
budgeting gimmick there is to know. He traces how flaws in the
government's budget data can lead to wildly incorrect assumptions,
which in turn can be exploited by clever players with a stake in
the budget." --National Journal
Roy T. Meyers is Assistant Professor of Political Science,
University of Maryland, Baltimore.
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