Comparative Public Budgeting: Global Perspectives on Taxing and Spending

by George M. Guess, Lance T. LeLoup

Overview

Every government engages in budgeting and public financial management to run the affairs of state. Effective budgeting empowers states to prioritize policies, allocate resources, and discipline bureaucracies, and it contributes to efficacious fiscal and macroeconomic policies. Budgeting can be transparent, participatory, and promote democratic decision-making, or it can be opaque, hierarchical, and encourage authoritarian rule. This book compares budgetary systems around the world by examining the economic, political, cultural, and institutional contexts in which they are formulated, adopted, and executed. The second edition has been updated with new data to offer a more expansive set of national case studies, with examples of budgeting in China, India, Indonesia, Iraq, and Nigeria. Chapters also discuss Brexit and the European Union's struggle to require balances budgets during the Euro Debt Crisis. Additionally, the authors provide a deeper analysis of developments in US budgetary policies from the Revolutionary War through the Trump presidency.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781438433080
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	07/02/2011
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	306
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

George M. Guess is Adjunct Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, and is a former Scholar in Residence in Public Administration and Policy at American University. Guess is the author or co-author of ten books, including Building Democracy and International Governance; International Public Policy Analysis and Cases in Public Policy Analysis.

James D. Savage is Professor of Politics and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. Savage is the author of Reconstructing Iraq's Budgetary Institutions: Coalition State Building after Saddam (Cambridge University Press, 2013), Funding Science in America: Congress, Universities, and the Politics of the Academic Pork Barrel (Cambridge University Press, 2000), Making the EMU: The Politics of Budgetary Surveillance and the Enforcement of Maastricht, and Balanced Budgets and American Politics.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix

Preface xi

1 Comparative Budgeting 1

2 Budgeting in the United States 35

3 Commonwealth Countries 67

4 Budgeting in Europe and the European Union 95

5 Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union 127

6 International Budget Problems and Practices: Latin America 171

7 Budget Reform and Dissemination of Information 207

8 Conclusion: Dissemination of Budget Lessons and Innovations 255

Notes 273

References 275

Index 289