The federal budget : politics, policy, process / / by Allen Schick.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Schick, Allen.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 3rd ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xii, 345 p. :; ill.

"Updates and expands the assessment of the long-term budgetary outlook, addressing such issues as the collapse of the congressional budgetary process and the threat posed by the termination of discretionary spending caps. Concludes with a look at how the nation's deficit will affect Americ...

Table of Contents

• Conflict and resolution in federal budgeting
• The evolution of federal budgeting
• The budget's shifting boundaries
• The political rules and arithmetic of budgeting
• The president's budget
• The congressional budget process
• Revenue legislation
• Authorizing legislation
• The appropriations process
• Managing federal expenditures
• Budgeting for the long term
• Federal budget-related websites
• Glossary
• Index.