作者:THURMAIER, K
摘要:Some 50 years after V. O. Key first asked the central question of budget allocation, we still lack a general theory of microbudgeting. This article focuses on budgetary decision making by central budget bureau analysts and describes the framework of a theory of microbudgeting based on the notion of budgets as multifaceted problems, requiring multiple rationalities for redress or solutions, and predicting that when faced with apolitical imperative, budgeteers will recommend a politically ration...
作者:CONLAN, TJ; BEAM, DR; COLELLA, CC
作者单位:Illinois Institute of Technology; University System of Maryland; Towson University
作者:STANBURY, W; THOMPSON, F
作者单位:Willamette University
摘要:William Stanbury and Fred Thompson try to get beyond the mantra of waste, fraud, and abuse to deal seriously and constructively with the question of government waste. They provide a logical taxonomy of nine types of waste, which they, use to examine the question from several directions. One of the insights derived from their examination is that a large proportion of the waste created by government is not included in the budget. Indeed, efforts to reduce budgetary waste often simply cause it to...