Balancing the Federal Budget Trimming the Herds or Eating the Seed Corn 1st Edition by Irene Rubin 1889119628 9781889119625
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ISBN 10: 1889119628
ISBN 13: 9781889119625
Author: Irene S. Rubin
In this timely book Irene Rubin focuses on how government tried and eventually succeeded in balancing the U.S. federal budget in 1998. With characteristic insight and a lively narrative, Rubin describes the successive efforts of Congress and the administration over seventeen years to shape a process that would encourage balance, as well as the reactions of federal agencies to the pressure.
Table of contents:
1. 1981–98: Balancing the Budget: What Have We Learned?
Why Balance the Budget: Defining the Problem
Learning How to Balance the Budget
Design of the Study
Organization of the Book
2. What Happened and What Was Learned
What Have We Learned: The Lessons of the Late 1970s and Early 1980s
What We Have Not Learned
Conclusion
Part One. Eating the Seed Corn?
3. Information Agencies: Bureau of Labor Statistics and Bureau of the Census
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Census
Conclusions
4. Budget Offices
Congressional Budget Office
Office of Management and Budget
5. General Accounting Office
Vulnerability
Criticisms of the Agency’s Performance
Budget History
Agency Responses
Impacts
Agency Strategies
Conclusions
Part Two. Trimming the Herds?
6. Department of Agriculture
The USDA
The Reorganization Plan
1996 Simplification of Authorizing Legislation
Matching Workload, Program Complexity, and Staffing Levels
Conclusions
7. Department of Commerce
Budget Cuts, Threats of Termination, and Response
Department-wide Responses
EDA: Cuts, Threats of Termination, and Adaptation
PTO: User Fees and Deficit Reduction
NOAA
Conclusions
8. Department of Housing and Urban Development
The Reagan Years
The Scandals
The Clinton Administration
Consequences
Earmarking and Boutique Programs
Monitoring and Evaluation
Constituencies and Advocacy
Conclusions
9. Office of Personnel Management
The Reagan Years
The National Performance Review: Phases 1 and 2
Reorganization
Assessment
Conclusions
10. Eating the Seed Corn and Trimming the Herds
Budget Process and Tradeoffs
Defining Core Functions
Responding to Staffing Reductions: Increased Efficiency and Contracting Out
Duration
Strategies
Learning
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