Fiscal Challenges: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Budget Policy
by Elizabeth Garrett , Elizabeth A. Graddy , Howell E. JacksonEdition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-01-07
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
Fiscal Challenges: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Budget Policy brings together leading experts from a range of disciplines to explore the problems of budget policy. The authors, including top economists, political scientists, historians, psychologists, and legal scholars, together provide a unique, multidisciplinary introduction to the subject. In addition to in-depth analysis of congressional budget procedures and the economics of federal deficits and debt, Fiscal Challenges explores important recent developments in budget policy at the state level and in the European Union. The goal of the volume is to offer readers wide-ranging perspectives on the many different academic disciplines and perspectives that bear on the evaluation of budgetary procedures and their reform.
Author Biography
Elizabeth Garrett is the Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics, Political Science, and Policy, Planning, and Development at the University of Southern California. She is also the Co-Director of the USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics. Elizabeth A. Graddy is a Professor of public policy and political science at the University of Southern California and the Senior Associate Dean of Faculty and Academic Affairs in the University of Southern California School of Policy, Planning, and Development. Howell E. Jackson is the James S. Reid, Jr., Professor of Law at Harvard University. His research interests include financial regulation, consumer protection, and federal budget policy.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. vii |
| Contributors | p. xi |
| The Law and Politics of Fiscal Policy Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Congressional Budget Process | p. 4 |
| Budget Gimmicks | p. 39 |
| Transparency in the U.S. Budget Process | p. 68 |
| European Experiences with Fiscal Rules and Institutions | p. 103 |
| Bibliography | p. 130 |
| Understanding Federal Deficits and Public Debt Introduction | p. 139 |
| Economic Perspectives on Federal Deficits and Debt | p. 141 |
| Counting the Ways: The Structure of Federal Spending | p. 185 |
| Starving the Beast: The Political Psychology of Budget Deficits | p. 221 |
| Bibliography | p. 242 |
| Budgeting and Fiscal Constraints at the State Level Introduction | p. 249 |
| Budgetary Arrangements in the 50 States: In Search of Model Practices | p. 251 |
| The Calculus of Constraint: A Critical Review of State Fiscal Institutions | p. 271 |
| When Does the Ballot Box Limit the Budget? Politics and Spending Limits in California, Colorado, Utah, and Washington | p. 290 |
| Bibliography | p. 322 |
| Intergovernmental Aspects of Budget Policy Introduction | p. 329 |
| Dysfunctional or Optimal Institutions? State Debt Limitations, the Structure of State and Local Governments, and the Finance of American Infrastructure | p. 331 |
| Federal-State Budgetary Interactions | p. 366 |
| Bibliography | p. 396 |
| Judicial Powers and Budget Policy Introduction | p. 399 |
| New Property, Entrenchment, and the Fiscal Constitution | p. 401 |
| Courts, Constitutions, and Public Finance: Some Recent Experiences from the States | p. 418 |
| Bibliography | p. 446 |
| Index | p. 451 |
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