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First published in 1980, Public Spending Decisions attempts to
answer some important questions regarding public spending and its
relationship with economic and financial stringency. By the
beginning of the 1970s the expectation of continuing economic
growth had become implicit in the attitudes of politicians,
administrators, and the public in Britain; likewise, the assumption
of the growth of public spending had become embedded in the
machinery and processes of both local and central government. How
then were the local authorities and government departments affected
by the abrupt halt in the growth of public spending during 1970s?
How were the decisions made about the allocation of increasingly
scares resources? How did the treasury ensured that the spending
limits it established were not exceeded and what are the
implications of changes in the attitudes of decision makers towards
the growth of the public sector? The contributors are distinguished
scholars in the field of local and central government. This book is
a must read for scholars of public policy, public administration,
finance, and economics.
The connection between markets and states is one of the great
themes of political science. The contributors tackle the theme in
uniquely varied ways: through the eyes of historians of ideas and
analytical political philosophers: from the vantage points offered
by the market-state balance in Latin America, Africa and Eastern
Europe: and through analyses of how states regulate some of the
most important sectors of advanced industrial economies.
The connection between markets and states is one of the great
themes of political science. This theme is examined in these
essays, whose publication celebrates the 40th anniversary of the
funding of Britain's largest Department of Government, at the
University of Manchester. The contributors tackle the theme in
uniquely varied ways - through the eyes of historians of ideas and
analytical political philosophers; from the vantage points offered
by the market-state balance in Latin America, Africa and Eastern
Europe; and through analyses of how states regulate some of the
most important sectors of advanced industrial economies.
The international projection of Japan's corporate and technological
power is transforming world manufacturing and the international
political economy. Debate rages about Japan's economic success and
the role of the state in nurturing it. The Japanese background to
these debates is widely misunderstood and are analysed in
research-based chapters by British and Japanese specialists on
government-industry relations. Japanese policies for industrial
promotion, regulation and decline are set in a context of
comparative political economy. Sectors include pharmaceuticals,
shipbuilding and telecommunications in the US and Japan.
Why is so little reference made to covenant in the New Testament?
What importance does it have to us? If we knew more about how the
new covenant operates, might it change the way we relate to God? In
this study, the subject of "in Him" takes on a dynamic new meaning
when seen diagrammed in the new covenant, becoming the apex of
Christian understanding. This subject woven into covenant creates a
picture of God's undying relationship to man that cannot be broken.
The new covenant of love culminated the development of God's
covenants to man. It is beyond man's comprehension as to why a
supreme being would venture such an undertaking as man, although it
seems that this project was in God's planning all along and is the
crowning act that all other creations point to. In God's plan He
gives man the freedom of choice as to whether to seek Him or deny
Him. Faith in His existence and dedication to Him leads to an
eternal relationship. Thoughts in this book deal with creating and
deepening that faith. An understanding of these and other subjects
has been a historic journey in my life, so now, let your journey
begin. Jesse Maurice Wright was born in 1935 in south Texas to a
very Bible oriented family. His father, M.A. Wright was an
evangelist for the Church of Christ in many locations in the south,
west and central U.S. He has been married to Janiece for 55 years
and has two children, four grandchildren, and two
great-grandchildren. Maurice has served as deacon to congregations
in Colorado, Nevada and Oregon. He has been an elder at the
University Church of Christ in Denver, Colorado. His working career
has been in building contracting which ended in the electrical
field. He is an avid private pilot having built three small
aircraft. His retirement years have been mainly spent exploring his
interest in God's covenants which explains this, his only book.
IMPORTANT
The Treasury is at the heart of British Government, responsible for
deciding how much to spend and on what. Both the institution and
the public expenditure process are the focus of The Treasury and
Whitehall, a tour de force of contemporary policy analysis. Based
on research undertaken with the co-operation of the Treasury and
Whitehall departments, it shows how the key decisions of planning,
allocating, and controlling public expenditure are made. With
unique access to Treasury Expenditure Controllers and senior
financial officials in the main spending departments, the book
provides a detailed and authoritative account of the roles,
relationships, and inter-actions of the key players in the
Whitehall Expenditure Community as they confront each other in the
annual rituals of the Expenditure Survey. Thain and Wright explain
how the rules of the expenditure game were re-drawn in the 1980s in
the relentless search for cuts, greater economy and efficiency in
the design and delivery of public services, and the creation of a
more enterprising administrative culture. The authors explain how
and why the Treasury was rarely able to impose its constitutional
authority to stem the tide of rising public expenditure through the
turbulent years of the Thatcher and Major Governments. They show
that the Treasury is locked into a system of mutually constrained
power-relationships with the Whitehall departments, and obliged to
negotiate discretionary authority to control their spending.
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