| Class, Tax, and Power: Municipal Budgeting in the United States Revised Edition Contributor(s): Rubin, Irene S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1566430623 ISBN-13: 9781566430623 Publisher: CQ Press OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Affairs & Administration - Medical | Public Health - Political Science | Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Development |
| Dewey: 352 |
| LCCN: 98-8975 |
| Series: Public Administration and Public Policy |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 6.02" W x 9.01" (0.74 lbs) 234 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Offering case studies of financial management in numerous American cities over a period of enormous growth and change, Irene Rubin explores the historical context of municipal budgeting in the United States and the political environment that conditions reform and problem solving at the local level. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rubin, Irene S.: - Irene S. Rubin is Professor Emeritus of Public Administration at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Running in the Red: The Political Dynamics of Urban Fiscal Stress, Shrinking the Federal Government, Class Tax and Power: Municipal Budgeting in the United States, and Balancing the Federal Budget: Eating the Seed Corn or Trimming the Herds, all four of which rely extensively on qualitative interviews. She has written journal articles about citizen participation in local level government in Thailand, how universities adapt when their budgets are cut, and fights between legislative staffers and elected and appointed officials about unworkable policy proposals, all based on qualitative interviews. She is in the middle of an interviewing project about how local officials view and use contracts with the private sector and with other governmental units to provide public services. |