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| Foreword | |
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| About the New Edition | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Public Budgeting | |
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| Political Economy of Budgeting | |
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| The Political Economy of City Life Cycles: A Comparative Analysis of Services, Expenditures, and Revenues | |
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| Equity and Budgetary Analysis: Determining Fair Shares of Local-Option Sales Tax Revenue | |
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| Waste Not, Want Not: School Finance Reform and Educational Equity in New Jersey | |
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| Confidence, Competence, and Clientele: Norm Maintenance in Budget Preparation | |
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| The Political Economy of Outsourcing | |
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| Budget Management Practices | |
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| Issues in Budget Execution | |
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| Do Program Budgets and Performance Indicators Influence Budget Allocations? An Assessment of Mississippi Budgeting | |
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| Performance Budgeting in Florida: To Muddle or Not to Muddle, That is the Question | |
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| Implementing and Managing Zero-Base Budgeting | |
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| Target-Based Budgeting in Lincoln County | |
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| Strategic Planning and Budgeting in the "New Texas": Putting Service Efforts and Accomplishments to Work | |
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| Transition to Outcome-Based Budgeting: The Case of Missouri's Department of Revenue and Milwaukee, Wisconsin | |
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| Forecasting the General Fund Budget of a Local Government: The City of Pleasantville | |
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| Revenue Forecasting | |
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| Parties, Professionalism, and Changing Budget Battles in New York (1950-1997) | |
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| Capital Budgeting Practices in Local Governments: A Comparative Study of Two States | |
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| Procedures for Programming and Financing Capital Improvements | |
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| Can the Riverside Community Afford a Massive Debt-Financed Capital Improvements Program? | |
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| Budget Analysis: A Study in the Budgetary Practices of a Small Community | |
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| Budgeting for Unincorporated Area Services | |
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| Budgeting Under Financial Stress | |
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| The Collapse of Federal Fiscal Home Rule in the District of Columbia: An Analysis of Municipal Financial Conditions | |
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| City-County Consolidation: The Case of the Illusive Cost Savings | |
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| Innovations in Public Budgeting: Applying Organizational Development Processes to Downsizing | |
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| Cutback Management in Georgia: State Agency Responses to Fiscal Year 1992 Budget Reductions | |
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| The Struggle for Better Budgets: The Curious Case of the Legislative Conference System in New York State | |
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| Financial Management | |
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| Accounting, Auditing, and Financial Reporting | |
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| Cash Basis Financial Reporting for Local Government: A Comparison with GAAP | |
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| Changes for Governmental Financial Reporting | |
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| Financial Analysis of the City of Mesquite Falls, Texas, Using Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports | |
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| Governmental Audit Recommendation Follow-up Systems: Implementing Recommendations Effectively | |
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| Benchmarking and Cost Accounting: The North Carolina Approach | |
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| Financial Management Practices | |
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| Comparative Analysis of Key Governmental Financial Indicators | |
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| Financial Performance Monitoring and Customer-Oriented Government: A Case Study | |
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| Determining the Full Cost of Residential Solid Waste Services | |
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| Reengineering Financial Management: Pittsburgh's Unisource 2000 Project | |
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| Learning from Experience: Cash Management Practices of a Local Government | |
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| The Evolution of a Debt Management Policy and Program: A Case Study of Kentucky | |
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| The Orange County Debacle: Where Irresponsible Cash and Debt Management Practices Collide | |
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| The Gordian Knot of a Project Revenue Bond Default | |
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| Obtaining a Better Bond Rating: A Case Study | |
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| Procurement Dilemmas: Social Policies Versus Pure Competition--The Case of Vendor Preferences | |
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| Risk Management: A Case Study | |
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| The Politics of Pension Investment Returns | |
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| Promises and Pitfalls of Contracting for Public Services: The LAWA Case | |
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| Enterprise Fund Operation in a West Texas City | |
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| Ethical Issues Facing Private, Not-for-Profit Hospitals in the United States: The Case of the Methodist Hospital System | |
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| Financial Management Under Budgetary Stress | |
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| Financial Management Under Budgetary Stress | |
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| The Richmond Unified School District Default: COPs, Bankruptcy, Default, State Intervention, and Epilogue | |
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| Property Tax Abatement: A Case Study of San Marcos, Texas | |
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| Financing a Recycling Facility Through a Public-Private Partnership | |
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| The Chickens Come Home to Roost: The Publicization of Private Infrastructure | |
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| Index | |