2004, ISBN: 9788188817030

University Press of Kansas, Lawrence: . Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. The debate over the federal budgetÑand the deficit spending it tends to produceÑhas assu… Mehr…

University Press of Kansas, Lawrence: . Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. The debate over the federal budgetÑand the deficit spending it tends to produceÑhas assumed a renewed urgency for reasons that are painfully clear to all of us. Over the past thirty-two yearsÑfrom the presidency of Jimmy Carter through that of George W. BushÑthe U.S. government has in fact balanced its budget in only four of them, while the fiscal challenges confronting President Obama make a balanced budget anytime soon a remote possibility. Iwan Morgan's book provides a much-needed historical perspective on this perennially troubling issue. The prominent role of Congress notwithstanding, Morgan closely examines the role of presidents in the emergence of large federal budget deficits in the 1970s and 1980s, the reduction of the deficit problem in the 1990s, and its resurrection in the early twenty-first century. He focuses in particular on presidential budget policy to show how, over five administrations, deficit reduction merely complemented rather than took precedence over political prioritiesÑand how Democrats came to support deficit reduction as necessary to preserve the liberal state, while Republicans largely tolerated deficits in order to safeguard their tax programs. Along the way, he considers such curiosities as why Carter and Clinton sought to reduce the deficit at a high level of revenue while Reagan and Bush 43 took the low road, and why Reagan and Bush 41 pressed for constitutional change prohibiting unbalanced budgets while Carter and Clinton opposed such an amendment. Through this historical perspective, Morgan offers an innovative analysis of the relationship between presidential budget policy and the Federal Reserve's direction of monetary policy and probes the emerging link between America's domestic public indebtedness and external indebtedness. He also provides a fresh look at the growth of the entitlement state in a generally conservative era and the failure of efforts to place it on a secure financial footing. The Age of Deficits boldly places the budget deficit at the center of modern American political history. Morgan clearly shows that, however much our recent leaders defined the deficit as a threat, their responses to it ultimately reflected their concern with reconciling its reduction with other elements of their governing agenda., University Press of Kansas, Lawrence:, Shubhi Publications, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. New. “GOVERNMENT” is studied in a variety of social sciences with little cross-fertilization. And the many functions of public administration (such as human resource management, budgeting and finance, and policy analysis) are rarely interconnected by researchers and practitioners. This book fills that gap. What distinguishes “Government”: A Public Administration Perspective from regular introductory texts is that it provides readers with an overview that draws upon classic and modern literature on government especially from the study of public administration, but also from political science, political theory, international relations, organizational sociology, and economics. Jos Raadschelders’ innovative, ground-breaking work develops a meta-framework for the study of government that not only connects the various subfields in the study of public administration in a meaningful way, but also helps to link the body of knowledge of the study of public administration to relevant knowledge in other disciplines. Praise for Government: A Public Administration Perspective “In recent decades political science’s failure to teach ‘essentials’ of government institutions, administrative history, and civic values left a serious gap in preparing students for public service. Raadschelders’ new book fills this intellectual void by providing a unique holistic perspective on government’s central place in our lives. This volume ought to be warmly welcomed as a necessary prerequisite for advanced undergraduates and graduate students who may be interested in pursuing public affairs careers, or simply for the concerned citizen who may wish to understand better the world in which they live and work.” Richard J. Stillman II, University of Colorado, Denver Printed Pages: 453., Shubhi Publications, 2004<

2004, ISBN: 9788188817030

Shubhi Publications, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. New. “GOVERNMENT” is studied in a variety of social sciences with little cross-fertilization. An… Mehr…

Shubhi Publications, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. New. “GOVERNMENT” is studied in a variety of social sciences with little cross-fertilization. And the many functions of public administration (such as human resource management, budgeting and finance, and policy analysis) are rarely interconnected by researchers and practitioners. This book fills that gap. What distinguishes “Government”: A Public Administration Perspective from regular introductory texts is that it provides readers with an overview that draws upon classic and modern literature on government especially from the study of public administration, but also from political science, political theory, international relations, organizational sociology, and economics. Jos Raadschelders’ innovative, ground-breaking work develops a meta-framework for the study of government that not only connects the various subfields in the study of public administration in a meaningful way, but also helps to link the body of knowledge of the study of public administration to relevant knowledge in other disciplines. Praise for Government: A Public Administration Perspective “In recent decades political science’s failure to teach ‘essentials’ of government institutions, administrative history, and civic values left a serious gap in preparing students for public service. Raadschelders’ new book fills this intellectual void by providing a unique holistic perspective on government’s central place in our lives. This volume ought to be warmly welcomed as a necessary prerequisite for advanced undergraduates and graduate students who may be interested in pursuing public affairs careers, or simply for the concerned citizen who may wish to understand better the world in which they live and work.” Richard J. Stillman II, University of Colorado, Denver Printed Pages: 453., Shubhi Publications, 2004<

2004, ISBN: 9788188817030

Shubhi Publications, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. New. “GOVERNMENT” is studied in a variety of social sciences with little cross-fertilization. An… Mehr…

Shubhi Publications, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. New. “GOVERNMENT” is studied in a variety of social sciences with little cross-fertilization. And the many functions of public administration (such as human resource management, budgeting and finance, and policy analysis) are rarely interconnected by researchers and practitioners. This book fills that gap. What distinguishes “Government”: A Public Administration Perspective from regular introductory texts is that it provides readers with an overview that draws upon classic and modern literature on government especially from the study of public administration, but also from political science, political theory, international relations, organizational sociology, and economics. Jos Raadschelders’ innovative, ground-breaking work develops a meta-framework for the study of government that not only connects the various subfields in the study of public administration in a meaningful way, but also helps to link the body of knowledge of the study of public administration to relevant knowledge in other disciplines. Praise for Government: A Public Administration Perspective “In recent decades political science’s failure to teach ‘essentials’ of government institutions, administrative history, and civic values left a serious gap in preparing students for public service. Raadschelders’ new book fills this intellectual void by providing a unique holistic perspective on government’s central place in our lives. This volume ought to be warmly welcomed as a necessary prerequisite for advanced undergraduates and graduate students who may be interested in pursuing public affairs careers, or simply for the concerned citizen who may wish to understand better the world in which they live and work.” Richard J. Stillman II, University of Colorado, Denver Printed Pages: 453., Shubhi Publications, 2004<