The Federal Budget: Politics, Policy, Process

(Paperback, Third Edition)

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Allen Schick examines how surpluses projected during the final years of the Clinton presidency turned into oversized deficits under George W. Bush in the United States. In his detailed analysis of how the budget process works and the politics and practices surrounding the federal budget, Schick addresses issues such as the collapse of the congressional budgetary process and the threat posed by the termination of discretionary spending caps. This edition updates and expands his assessment of the long-term budgetary outlook, and it concludes with a look at how the nations deficit will affect America now and in the future.

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Allen Schick is a visiting fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a professor of public policy at the University of Maryland. His other books include The Budget Puzzle: Understanding Federal Spending (Stanford University Press, 1994), with Timothy J. Muris and John F. Cogan, and The Capacity to Budget (Urban Institute, 1990).