'Updates and expands the assessment of the long-term budgetary outlook, addressing such issues as the collapse of the congressional budgetary process and the threat posed by the termination of discretionary spending caps. Concludes with a look at how thenation's deficit will affect America now and in the future'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: Governments at risk are facing major fiscal challenges as a result of their contingent liabilities. Contingent liabilities dubbed 'hidden deficits' account for a large share of the rise in government debt and tend to remain outside the framework of conventional public financial analysis and institutions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book is an essential guide to understanding the federal budget process. Allen Schick brings together three critical elements of budget strategy: the political tactics and relationships that determine budgetary success or failure; the policy objectives pursued through the budget's revenue and spending proposals; and the rules and procedures that govern congressional and presidential action on these proposals...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In the United States, the size and composition of the federal budget is arguably the most important single issue of the 1990's, yet most debates and commentaries on the subject are largely uninformed. Virtually no one - whether government official, member of Congress, journalist, or taxpayer - seems to understand how the budget is put together and what it means...read more

Product Description: Budgeting has become a conflict-ridden process in which politicians frequently resort to ad hoc procedures in order to make it through that year's required actions. Allen Schick provides evidence of the recent breakdown in both the budget process (missed deadlines, omnibus legislation, and improvised procedures) and policies (summed up in massive and seemingly chronic deficits) as testaments of political failure...read more

Product Description: Allen Schick is Distinguished University Professor of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. His research and writings cover government finance, budget policy and process, comparative political institutions, and international development...read more

Product Description: Duiscussion of the Congressional budget...

Product Description: Book by Schick, Allen