Balanced Budgets and American Politics / / James Savage.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Savage, James,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 24 tables, 3 graphs
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Tables and Figures --; Preface --; 1. Balanced Budgets and Symbolic Politics --; 2. The Economics of Deficit Spending --; 3. Colonial Deficits, Constitutional Restrictions, and the Rise of Hamiltonian Government --; 4. Creating a Symbol: Balanced Budgets and the Concept of Corruption --; 5. Distorting a Symbol: Republican Party Government, 1861-1932 --; 6. Transforming a Symbol: Democratic Party Government, 1933-1980 --; 7. Coming to Grips with a Symbol: Ronald Reagan and Unbalanced Budgets --; Appendix 1. State Debts and the Development of Off-Budget Spending,1860-1984 --; Appendix 2. The Reagan Budget Battles, FY 1982-1985 --; Appendix 3. Federal Receipts, Expenditures, Surpluses, Deficits, and Debt, 1789-1984 --; Notes --; Selected Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501746222; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501746222
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: James Savage.

A topical issue but hardly a new one, the concern for balancing the federal budget has been a perennial source of conflict in American political life. In Balanced Budgets and American Politics, James Savage explores the causes and development of the nation's preoccupation with this issue. Savage argues that the American fascination with the idea of balancing the federal budget is deeply rooted and reflects more than a contemporary concern about interest rates, inflation, or even the outcome of recent budget battles. His analysis demonstrates the considerable influence that the principle budget balancing has had on politics and public policy from 1690 through Ronald Reagan's first term as president.