Fiscal Challenges: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Budget Policy

Elizabeth Garrett; Elizabeth A. Graddy; Howell E. Jackson

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511511462

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.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv
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Contents
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Preface
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Contributors
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PART ONE - THE LAW AND POLITICS OF FISCAL POLICY
pp 1-3
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1 - The Congressional Budget Process
pp 4-38
- By William G. Dauster, Deputy Staff Director and General Counsel, U.S. Senate Finance Committee
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2 - Budget Gimmicks
pp 39-67
- By Cheryl D. Block, Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis
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3 - Transparency in the U.S. Budget Process
pp 68-102
- By Elizabeth Garrett, University of Southern California, Adrian Vermeule, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
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4 - European Experiences with Fiscal Rules and Institutions
pp 103-129
- By Jürgen Von Hagen, Professor of economics, University of Bonn
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Part One Bibliography
pp 130-138
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PART TWO - UNDERSTANDING FEDERAL DEFICITS AND PUBLIC DEBT
pp 139-140
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5 - Economic Perspectives on Federal Deficits and Debt
pp 141-184
- By Michael J. Boskin, T. M. Friedman Professor of Economics and Hoover Institution Senior Fellow, Stanford University
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6 - Counting the Ways: The Structure of Federal Spending
pp 185-220
- By Howell E. Jackson, James S. Reid, Jr., Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
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7 - Starving the Beast: The Political Psychology of Budget Deficits
pp 221-241
- By Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Edward J. McCaffery, Robert C. Packard Trustee Chair in Law, Political Science and Economics, University of Southern California
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Part Two Bibliography
pp 242-248
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PART THREE - BUDGETING AND FISCAL CONSTRAINTS AT THE STATE LEVEL
pp 249-250
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8 - Budgetary Arrangements in the 50 States: In Search of Model Practices
pp 251-270
- By Juliet Ann Musso, Associate professor of public policy, University of Southern California School of Policy, Planning, and Development, Elizabeth Graddy, University of Southern California, Jennifer Bravo Grizard, Master of Public Policy graduate, University of Southern California, School of Policy, Planning, and Development
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9 - The Calculus of Constraint: A Critical Review of State Fiscal Institutions
pp 271-289
- By Tracy M. Gordon, Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland
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10 - When Does the Ballot Box Limit the Budget? Politics and Spending Limits in California, Colorado, Utah, and Washington
pp 290-321
Politics and Spending Limits in California, Colorado, Utah, and Washington
- By Thad Kousser, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego, Mathew D. McCubbins, Chancellor's Associates Chair VIII in the Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego, Kaj Rozga, Graduate, University of California, San Diego
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Part Three Bibliography
pp 322-328
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PART FOUR - INTERGOVERNMENTAL ASPECTS OF BUDGET POLICY
pp 329-330
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11 - Dysfunctional or Optimal Institutions? State Debt Limitations, the Structure of State and Local Governments, and the Finance of American Infrastructure
pp 331-365
- By John Joseph Wallis, Professor of Economics, University of Maryland; National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Barry R. Weingast, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; Ward C. Krebs Family Professor, Department of Political Science at Stanford University
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12 - Federal–State Budgetary Interactions
pp 366-395
- By David A. Super, Professor of law, University of Maryland School of Law
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Part Four Bibliography
pp 396-398
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PART FIVE - JUDICIAL POWERS AND BUDGET POLICY
pp 399-400
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13 - New Property, Entrenchment, and the Fiscal Constitution
pp 401-417
- By John Harrison, David Lurton Massee, Jr., Professor of Law and the Henry L. and Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation Professor, University of Virginia
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14 - Courts, Constitutions, and Public Finance: Some Recent Experiences from the States
pp 418-445
- By Richard Briffault, Joseph P. Chamberlain Professor of Legislation, Columbia Law School
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Part Five Bibliography
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Index
pp 451-455
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