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Author(s): Kurt M. Thurmaier, Katherine G. Willoughby
ISBN(s): 9780765602930, 0765602938
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Year: 2001
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0765602938 
ISBN 13: 9780765602930
Author: Kurt M Thurmaier, Katherine G Willoughby

States are the key to contemporary government reform efforts in the United States, but we know very little about their relative effectiveness at resource allocation and their actual capacity to absorb additional fiscal and managerial responsibilities. This path-breaking study examines state budget offices as institutional actors, with special attentio to the role of budget examiners. Drawing on empirical findings from field studies of eleven states in the American heartland, the authors demonstrate how budgeting at the state level has become more policy-oriented, requiring complex decision making by budget analysts. The incrementalist model of budgetary decision-making thus gives way to a multiple rationalities model. The authors illustrate the decision-making model with the story of two office examiners who have distinctly different orientations as they begin their work, and contrast the different decision nationalities that come into play for them at different points in a typical budget cycle. The book includes a comprehensive bibliography of historical and modern writings on state budgeting operations, activities, and decision-making; state budgeting cycles; and the state-level policy development process.

Policy and Politics in State Budgeting 1st Table of contents:

1 Introduction
The Purpose of This Research
The State Government Setting: Factors Influencing Budgeters’
Financial Condition
Political Factors
Organizational Setting of the State Budget Office
Personal Characteristics of Budget Examiners
State Sample Characteristics
Fiscal and Economic
Politics, Budget Powers, and Organizational Factors
Comparison of the Sample States
Interview Methodology
Summary: Using This Text Effectively
Notes

2 The State Budget Office and the Budget Problem
The Budget Problem: Funding Policies and Programs
The Governor’s Budget and Policy Problems
Policy Change and the Agenda-Setting Model
PAS and State Policy-Making
The Treatment of Time and Timing in Decision Models
Synthesis of Change Models
Incrementalism Models
GCM–RTB–Incrementalism Synthesis and Implications
The Budget Decision Agenda
The SBO as Gatekeeper
Flows of Information
Top–Down Flows
Bottom–Up Flows
Coupling Macro and Micro Decisions
Development-Phase Decisions
The First Decision Level
The Second Decision Level
The Third Decision Level
Execution-Phase Decisions
Summary: The Foundations for a Model of Budget Rationality
Notes

3 Budget Rationalities: Effectiveness Decisions
Why Propose a Budget Rationalities Model?
Is There Such a Thing as Budget Rationality?
Toward a Concept of Budgetary Rationality: The Limits of the ECM
Demands of a Model of Budget Rationality
Empirical Support for a Model of Budget Rationality
Effectiveness Decisions
Social Rationality
Political Rationality
Budget Process: Decision-Making Structures Associated with Political Rationality
Choosing Peripheral Policies and Programs
Political Feasibility Frontier
The Politics of Substantive Policy Areas
Legal Rationality
Summary: Conclusions About Effectiveness Decisions
Notes

4 Budget Rationalities: Efficiency Decisions
The Efficiency/Effectiveness Cleavage
Efficiency Decisions
Economic Rationality
Technical Rationality
The Limitations of Efficiency Decisions
The Rationalities Framework
Multiple Rationalities at Work
Problem Framing: Simplifying Decision Rules to Reduce Complexity
The Rational Analyst and Budget Rationality
Budget Problem Representation: Framing Decisions
The Credibility of the Issue Framer
A Multidimensional View of the Budget Problem
Summary: Complex Problems Require Complex Analysis
Notes

5 Budget Office Orientations and Decision Contexts
A Typology of Budget Office Decision Contexts
Gubernatorial Activism and Policy Influence
SBO Orientations
Midwestern States
Control Orientation
Weak Policy Model
Strong Policy Model
Southern States
Control Orientation
Transition (Weak Policy) Model
Strong Policy Model
Policy Distances in State Budgeting
Policy Consonance and Priorities
Working for the Governor
Nurturing a Policy Orientation
Affirmation Rates of Examiners
Patterns of Communication Flow in SBOs
Summary: Policy Problems Become Budget Problems in a Decision Context
Notes

6 The Anatomy of a Policy-Oriented Budget Recommendation
Shadowing the SBO Examiner
The Task of the Policy-Oriented SBO
Predevelopment-Phase Analysis
Social Facets of Budget Problems
Political Facets of Budget Problems
Legal Facets of Budget Problems
The Effectiveness Framework and Efficiency Rationalities
Development-Phase Analysis
Technical Rationality
Economic Rationality
Crafting the Examiner’s Recommendation
Simplifying Decision Rules
Briefing the Governor
Control in Policy-Oriented SBOs
A Note About Legislative-Phase Analysis
Summary: A Decision Process with Multiple Rationalities

7 The Anatomy of a Control-Oriented Budget Recommendation
The Task of the Control-Oriented Office
Predevelopment-Phase Analysis
Social and Legal Facets of Budget Problems
Talking with Agency Personnel
Making Site Visits
Political Facets of Budget Problems
Agency Priorities
SBO Priorities: Communicating with the Section Manager
Gubernatorial Priorities
Budget Hearings
Development-Phase Analysis
Receiving the Agency Budget Request
The Revenue Constraint
Crafting a Recommendation
Summary: Constraints on a Multiple-Rationalities Approach to Budget Decisions
Note

8 Changing Roles: From Guarding the Purse to Guarding the Policy
Changing Roles: From Guarding the Purse to Guarding the Policy Historical Evolution of the Budget Examiner Role
The Roles Typology from Examiner Interviews
Adversary
Conduit
Facilitator
Policy Analyst
Advocate
The Issue of Neutral Competency
Examiner Role Complexity
A Model of Budgetary Roles
Different Budget Phases Require Different Examiner Roles
Different Decision Contexts Require Different Roles
Examiner Roles in a Policy-Oriented SBO
Examiner Roles in a Control-Oriented SBO
Compare and Contrast: Control- Versus Policy-Oriented SBOs
Educational and Professional Backgrounds of Budget Examiners
Different Roles Require Different Types of Decision-Making
Decision Context Matters
Relationships Matter
Summary: Decision Context, Communication, and Budget Roles of SBOs

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