Inside Omb:: Politics and Process in the President's Budget Office

ISBN-13: 9781563244544 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 352 str.

Shelley Lynne Tomkin; Stephen J. Wayne

Opis

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) occupies a critical juncture in relations between the office of the President, the Executive Branch, and Congress. Through its budgetary, managerial, and regulatory review mandates, it can function as an "enforcer" with a significant impact on public policy and its implementation_ Despite this, OMB has maintained a low profile in recent years, and has eluded focused attention. Remarkably, this is the fast study of OMB to appear in nearly two decades-a time of momentous change both in presidential-congressional relations and in U.S. budgetary politics, including the short-lived line-item veto. The book will be extremely useful not just to students of public policy but to anyone trying to work effectively with federal, state, or local budget offices.

Spis treści

OMB: A Presidential Advisor “For All Seasons”; Learning the Institutional Map: OMB Organization and Staff Roles; The Bureau's First Sixty Years: Ancient History or Not?; Institutional Service to the President, 1976–1980: The Roles of the Budget Examiners; Onslaught in the 1980s: Causes and Effects for OMB; OMB's Budget Preparation Mandate Goes Second Tier; OMB and Congress, 1973–1992: Role Reversal and Stalemate; OMB and the Agencies: Communicating, Managing, and “Regulating the Regulators”; OMB Meets the Clintonites: Transitions Within Transitions; Beyond the Deluge: The Clinton OMB after the 1994 Election; Beyond OMB 2000: One Bridge to the Twenty-First Century; Epilogue

O autorze

Shelley Lynne Tomkin