Bounded Bureaucracy and the Budgetary Process in the United States

ISBN-13: 9781138507760 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 223 str.

Jay Ryu

Opis

Bureaucracies have been criticized from various perspectives and blamed for a variety of failings

Spis treści

Preface
1 Bureaucraticization of Budget Processes: Causing or Remedying Bounded Rationality?
Bounded Rationality of Decision Makers
Bounded Bureaucracy as a Remedy to Bounded Rationality
Central Budget Offices: Enhancing Information
Processing and Reducing Institutional Conflicts
Bureaucracy to Save Bureaucratic Malfunctions
2 Bounded Rationality in Policy and Budget Processes
Bounded Rationality and Satisficing
Incrementalism
Serial Judgment
Disproportionate Information Processing
Conclusion
3 Bureaucratic Organizations as a Remedy to Bounded Rationality
Bureaucratic Organizations: Extending Human Cognitive and Analytical Capacities
Bureaucratic Centralization: Expediting Information Processing and Reducing Institutional Frictions
Bureaucratic Centralization and Moderating Impact of Organizational Strategies
Bureaucratic Centralization and Partisan Configurations
Conclusion: Bounded Bureaucracy to Bounded Rationality
4 Bureaucratic Centralization and the National Executive Budget Process
U.S. Budget Outcomes: 1961 2006
Bureaucratic Centralization in Presidents' Budgets
Institutional Frictions in the U.S. Budget Process
Bureaucratic Centralization and U.S. Budget
Punctuations 81
Bureaucratic Centralization and U.S. Budget Stability
Conclusion
5 Bureaucratic Centralization and the Congressional Budget Process
Congressional Macrobudgeting: Institutions and Partisan Politics
The Congressional Budget Offi ce (CBO): A Bipartisan Information Processor
Bureaucratic Centralization and U.S. Budget Punctuations
Bureaucratic Centralization and U.S. Budget Stability
Conclusion
6 Bureaucratic Centralization and the State Budget Process
State Budget Outcomes: 1993, 1996, 1998, and 2000
State Executive Budgets
State Legislative Budgets
State Budget Institutions: Item Veto and Balanced
Budget Requirements
Bounded Bureaucracy and the Budgetary Process in the United States
Bureaucratic Centralization and State Budget Punctuations
Bureaucratic Centralization and State Budget Stability
Conclusion
Appendix: Legislative Professionalization and State Budget Punctuations and Stability
7 Conclusion: Bounded Bureaucracy to Bounded Rationality
Bibliography
Index

O autorze

Jay Ryu