[...]... book with three audiences in mind Scholars of state budxv xvi PREFACE geting, state policy- making, and state politics should find this book a useful addition to their libraries The model we construct weaves budgeting, policy, and politics together, highlighting the actors, the decision points, and the nexus of budgeting and policy- making in state budget offices The state politics literature has lacked... governors Students in state politics courses will also benefit from this book It highlights how governors use budgets as policy instruments, identifying both the nexus and the distinctiveness of state politics and state policy- making The book enriches our understanding of the policy- making process in states and particularly highlights the policy influence of a key set of actors (budget examiners) who often... Economic Cooperation and Development Office of Management and Budget Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries Policy agenda setting Performance-based budgeting Political-Incremental choice Real-time budgeting State budget office Social-political-legal Zero-based budgeting xxi This page intentionally left blank Policy and Politics in State Budgeting This page intentionally left blank 1 Introduction The... decision-making of state budget examiners and that of members of the governor’s policy staff The politics of budgeting is influenced by both sets of actors The third audience for this book is the retinue of public servants engaged in state budgeting in various agencies, state budget offices, and state legislatures The results of our field study of state budget offices in two different regions of the United States... (e.g., Lee and Johnson’s Public Budgeting Systems) These kinds of books help students see the overall process of budgeting but gloss over how individuals make budgeting decisions and contribute to final budget outcomes Students can identify with the ideal type of examiners and their work in state budget offices as presented in the second half of this book, and can follow examiners’ “thinking” as they... governor and his or her budget staff include monitoring agency spending plans, making allotments and preparing expenditure reports, the conduct of transfers and reprogramming, and discretion regarding the use of contingency, emergency, or rainy day funds, as well as the more mundane functions of central clearance for legislation initiatives of agencies or for hiring, buying equipment, and the like Again, state. .. Control -Policy Continuum 25 61 91 115 121 123 124 137 148 167 169 170 174 299 302 313 318 321 342 Box 2.1 The Garbage Can Model 35 Preface This book accomplishes two goals First, it provides an in- depth description of budgetary politics and policy- making in state budget offices The data rendered in these chapters fills a significant gap in our understanding of state budget processes, and how budgeting and. .. the politics and economics of national budgeting, highlighting the tug of war between the president and Congress While several texts discuss state and local budgeting, notably Axelrod (1995) and Gosling (1997), most scholastic literature on the topic is composed of ad hoc research on specific aspects of budgeting, often focusing on a single state or select states for analysis (Clynch and Lauth 1991)... SETTING 7 by the examiner, the sequencing of information gathering, the framing of the problem—for themselves and for their superiors and threshold decisions about how much they will invest in arguing in support of, or opposition to, various budgeting options or solutions that they may develop or that are presented by other budgetary actors, including agency officials and interest groups In the end, we hope... how budgeting and policy- making are linked in state budget offices Except for a few important attempts in the early 1960s, very little is written about state budget office activities, which is surprising given their crucial position at the nexus of budgeting and policy- making in many states The stories we tell here help public administration and political science scholars understand how we get collective . weaves budgeting, policy, and politics together, highlighting the actors, the decision points, and the nexus of budgeting and policy- making in state budget. the nexus and the distinctiveness of state politics and state policy- making. The book enriches our understanding of the policy- making process in states and particularly