本书是公共管理学经典教材原版影印丛书之一，构建了分析预算过程的理论体系，对美国政治科学和公共管理发生了革命性的影响。作为最新版，它反映了预算过程的最新发展，收录了一些重要领域的最新案例。本书以其批判性和启发性价值，成为政治学和公共管理专业学生的必读之作，也适用于对该领域感兴趣的读者认真阅读。

本书构建了分析预算过程的理论体系，指出预算在现实中是一个渐进过程，很大程度上受政治因素的影响。本书第一版《预算过程的政治学》自1964年出版以来，对美国政治科学和公共管理发生了革命性的影响。本书是第五版，作为最新版，它反映了预算过程的最新发展，收录了一些重要领域的最新案例。本书能很快成为经典之作，还因为其生动的语言。在作者笔下，预算并不枯燥，而且还是一个有趣的过程。

本书以其批判性和启发性价值，成为政治学和公共管理专业学生的必读之作，也适用于对该领域感兴趣的读者认真阅读。

Foreword  v

Preface to the Fifth Edition  xiii

Preface to the First Edition  xxi

Biographical Note  xxvii

Chapter One

Budgeting as Conflicting Promises

Budgets Are Conflicting Commitments  7

Tax Preferences  11

   ropriations: The Power of Congress and Power Within Congress  13

   President Is Both Rival and Partner of Congress  16   

Conflicting Promises: The Multiple Meanings of Budgetary Control  19

Chapter Two

Budgets as Struggles for Power: A Historical

                                           25

Perspective

Colonial Origins  26

Turning Points: Civil War through World War I  30

The Executive Budget Movement  33

Dislocation and Continuity: Depression and War  40

Chapter Three

The Dance of the Dollars: Classical Budgeting      42

Calculations  44

   Complexity  44

   Aids to Calculation  45

Incremental Budgeting  46

Roles and Perspectives  50

   The Agency  so

   The Bureau of the Budget  54

   The Appropriations Committees  56

Strategies  57

   Be a Good Politician  58

   Clientele  58

   Confidence  60

   Congressional Committee Hearings  62

   Strategies Designed to Captaitze on the Fragmentation

     of Power in National Politics  62

Chapter Four

The Collapse of Consensus                68

The Gro~th of Entitlements  69

Economic Activism  70

Federal Credit  71

Priorities  72

Impoundment  73

The Budget Act: More Checks, More Balances,

  but Not More Control  78

    Impoundment Again  75

    Congressional Budget Office  76

    Senate Budget Committee and House Budget Committee  76

    Scheduling  76

    Resolutions  77

    Reconc/liation  78

    Complexity  78

    A Congressional Budget, or Merely More Budgeting?  ,78

The Budget Process, 1975-1979: Making Totals Stick  79

Classical Budgeting Withers Without Quite Disappearing  81

Chapter Five

The Polities of Dissensus                 83

Why Budget Decisions Became So Difficult  84

    The Focus on Totals  84

    The End of Economic Management  85

    Dominance of the Deficit  86

    Polarization of the Parties  87

  The Congressional Budget Act in the.1980s  88

    R and 11. Resolution and Reconciliation  88

    Deferral and Rescission Redux  90

    The Shifting Budgetary Base  91

    Continuing Omnibus Resolutions  92

 OMB in an Era of Perennial Budgeting  93

    Top-Down Policy Making  94

    Continuous Budgeting  94

    Negotiating with Congress  95

    Implications for OMB  96

 Dissensus in Congress  97

    Role Reversal  97

    Rolled on the Floor  98

    Budgeting Penetrates Congress  100

    Gimmicks  100

Chapter Six

The Politics of Balancing Budgets            103

 Gramm-Budman-Hollings  105

 The Budget Enforcement Act of 1990  106

 The Clinton Budget of 1993  108

 The Politics of Radical Reversal 1995  111

    Prologue: Constitutional Amendment and Rescission 112

   Budgets and Counterbudgets: The President's Budget

     and the Congressional Resolution  113

   Incrementalism in Mirror Image: Appropriations114

   Confrontation: Continuing Resolutions and the Debt Limit  115

   Reconciliation and Intransigence   118

The Balanced Budget Act of 1997  120

Chapter Seven

Entitlements                       123

Chapter Eight

Budgeting for Defense                  152

Chapter Nine       

Reform                         181

Chapter Ten

From Surplus to Deficit

Glossary  225

Guide to Acronyms  230

Select Bibliography  231

Credits  245

Index   246