States are the key to contemporary government reform efforts in the United States, but we know very little about their relative effectiveness at resource allocation and their actual capacity to absorb additional fiscal and managerial responsibilities. This path-breaking study examines state budget offices as institutional actors, with special attentio to the role of budget examiners. Drawing on empirical findings from field studies of eleven states in the American heartland, the authors demonstrate how budgeting at the state level has become more policy-oriented, requiring complex decision...

States are the key to contemporary government reform efforts in the United States, but we know very little about their relative effectiveness at resource allocation and their actual capacity to absorb additional fiscal and managerial responsibilities. This path-breaking study examines state budget offices as institutional actors, with special attentio to the role of budget examiners. Drawing on empirical findings from field studies of eleven states in the American heartland, the authors demonstrate how budgeting at the state level has become more policy-oriented, requiring complex decision...

This assessment of government corporations examines their records and identifies advantages and failures. The author challenges the reader to think creatively about the government corporate form and ways to reinvent it, capitalizing on its strengths and compensating for its shortcomings.

Moving from the adoption of the post-Stalin Constitution of 1977 through its subsequent implementation under Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko to the radical legal restructuring of the Gorbachev years, Robert Sharlet traces the gradual evolution of a nascent constitutionalism in the erstwhile USSR. Sharlet, a noted authority on Soviet law and constitutional development, demonstrates the gradual transformation of law from an instrument of Communist Party rule into the new rules of the game for nonauthoritarian political development. In effect, he argues, one of Gorbachev's most durable...

Most students of contemporary China are familiar with the Joint Economic Committee studies on China, which have appeared periodically since 1967. This is the most recent study in the series (released in April, 1991).

Inaugurating a new M.E. Sharpe series, this volume presents a detailed portrait of Hungarian industry in the context of a sweeping transition in the political and economic system of the country. Published simultaneously as Eastern European Economics, v.32, no.1. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc.

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

Controls on the bureaucracy through administrative due process and presidential and congressional prerogatives are the focus of this book. The author examines these controls and assesses the trade-offs among them.

This text discusses the economic, social and political implications of redirecting labour and capital from a military-based to a post-Cold War economy.