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1 THE NATURE OF PUBLIC BUDGETING
What Is Public Budgeting?
What Are Budgets Expected to Do ?
Setting Goals and Priorities
Linking Goals to Actions
Mangaging the Economy
Promoting Accountability
controlling the Use of Poblic Resources
Promoting Efficiency and Effecitiveness
social Planning and Reform
Keeping the Process manageable
Theories of Public budgeting
Incrementalism
Rational Decision Making
Political Influence
Economics shapes Budgets
Procedures Shape Budgets
Bgdget Strategies
Cultivating Clientele support
Gaining the Trust of Others
Documenting a Need
Looking for Sympathetic decision Makers
Coping with Painfrl Actions
The "Camels Nose"
Making the Program Appear Self-Supporting
Capitalizing the Risk of Future
Coping with Complexity and Conflict
Incrmentalism
Fair Shares
Separtate Pools
division of Labor
Avoiding Programmatic Decisions
Concluding Thoughts
2 GOVEERMENT REVENUES,SPENDING AND BORROWING :A BRIEF OVERVIEW
3 THE BUDGET CYCLE : A BRIEF INTRODUCTION
4 BUDGET PREPARATION
5 TECHNIQUES OF BUDGETARY ANSLYSIS
6 BUDGET ADOPTION
7 BUDGET EXECUTION
8 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
9 THE ECONOMY AND THE BUDGET
10 INTERGOVERMENTAL ASPECTS OF PUBLIC BUDGETING
Reference
Index