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Budgeting and Governing Aaron Wildavsky

Budgeting and Governing By Aaron Wildavsky

Budgeting and Governing by Aaron Wildavsky


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Aaron Wildavsky's greatest concern, as expressed in his writings, is how people manage to live together

Budgeting and Governing Summary

Budgeting and Governing by Aaron Wildavsky

Aaron Wildavsky's greatest concern, as expressed in his writings, is how people manage to live together. This concern may at first appear to have little to do with the study of budgeting, but for Wildavsky budgeting made living together possible. Indeed, as he argues here, if you cannot budget, you cannot govern.Budgeting and Governing gathers in one place a mass of material that otherwise would be lost in a wilderness of journals and edited volumes. With few exceptions, Wildavsky chose the articles in this collection. They are organized largely chronologically so that the reader can trace the progression of his thought which moved from studies of the American federal government, through comparative work, and on to placing budgeting within a broader theory of political culture. Wildavsky wrote about budgeting because in his words, when a process involves power, authority, culture, consensus, and conflict, it captures a great deal of national political life. Wildavsky was interested in budgeting because of what it could tell us about the classic questions of- politics: who gets what, how, and why? His earlier analyses focus narrowly on budgeting personnel and agency actors in answering these questions, while in his later work the contending actors become sub-cultural types.To Wildavsky politics was about finding terms for living together in spite of ideological differences. Budgetary incrementalism helped to manage this otherwise unmanageable task. He thought synoptic budgeting and all related reforms would increase disagreement and raise the stakes, and so were unwise. Analysis had to serve politics, not try to displace it.

Budgeting and Governing Reviews

Brendon Swedlow and Transaction have rendered policy scholars, budget specialists, and public managers a tremendous service by pulling together this posthumous collection of Aaron Wildavsky's writings on the vital, if often politically tense, relationship between budgeting and governing. Those who have never read the 16 articles contained in the book...are in for an intellectual treat. Those already well versed in the major arguments and themes of this work will be reminded of how much the public policy world lost when Wildavsky died in 1993. - Eric M. Patashnik, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management [Wildavsky] was one of the few people in the field who took the word 'science,' as in political science, to mean precisely that: the scientific study of political behavior and its institutions. He was also one of the even rarer groups of people in the discipline who expressed his moral preferences and concerns in plain words. - Irving Louis Horowitz, Tributes

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Aaron Wildavsky

Table of Contents

1: Making Budgets; 1: A Budget for All Seasons? Why the Traditional Budget Lasts; 2: The Political Economy of Efficiency; 3: Rescuing Policy Analysis; 4: Toward a Radical Incrementalism: A Proposal to Aid Congress in Reform of the Budgetary Process; 5: The Annual Expenditure Increment; 6: Budgetary Reform in an Age of Big Government; 7: Equality, Spending Limits, and the Growth of Government; 2: The Culture of Budgeting; 8: Toward a Comparative Theory of Budgetary Processes; 9: Prologue to Planning and Budgeting in Poor Countries; 10: The Movement toward Spending Limits in American and Canadian Budgeting; 11: The Transformation of Budgetary Norms; 12: A Cultural Theory of Expenditure Growth and (Un)Balaneed Budgets; 13: The Budget as New Social Contract; 14: On the Balance of Budgetary Cultures; 3: Budgeting and Governing; 15: Securing Budgetary Convergence within the European Community without Central Direction; 16: If You Can't Budget, How Can You Govern?; Postscript: Aaron Wildavsky, Cultural Theory, and Budgeting

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NLS9781412806251
9781412806251
1412806259
Budgeting and Governing by Aaron Wildavsky
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Inc
2006-12-15
396
N/A
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