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The Deficit and the Public Interest The Search for Responsible Budgeting in The 1980s.
Political time is counted not in years, but in issues--the Depression defined the political era of the 1930s just as the Cold War did the 1950s and civil rights the 1960s. In the 1980s, the federal budget loomed as the dominant issue by which all others were considered and has become a concern that...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
- LIST OF TABLES
- PREFACE: THE ERA OF THE BUDGET
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ONE. Madisonian Budgeting, or Why the Process Is So Complicated
- TWO. Democrats in a Budget Trap
- THREE. ""The Worst of All Worlds
- FOUR. Preparing for the Reagan Revolution
- FIVE. The President's Program
- SIX. Gramm-Latta 1
- SEVEN. Party Responsibility Comes to Congress
- EIGHT. Starving the Public Sector: The Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981
- NINE. Return of the Deficit
- TEN. A Government Divided
- ELEVEN. Fake Budgets and a Real Tax Hike
- TWELVE. Economics as Moral Theory: Volckernomics, Reaganomics, and the Balanced Budget Amendment
- THIRTEEN. Guerrilla Warfare: Spending Politics, 1982
- FOURTEEN. A Triumph of Governance: Social Security
- FIFTEEN. Causes and Consequences of the Deficit
- SIXTEEN. The Budget Process Collapses
- SEVENTEEN. Budgeting Without Rules
- EIGHTEEN. The Deficit in Public and Elite Opinion
- NINETEEN. Gramm-Rudman-Hollings, or the Institutionalization of Stalemate
- TWENTY. Counterpoint: The Improbable Triumph of Tax Reform
- TWENTY-ONE. Budgeting with Gramm- Rudman-Hollings, or ""Help Me Make It Through the Night
- TWENTY-TWO. The Deficit and the Public Interest
- TWENTY-THREE. Nobody's Darling, but No One's Disaster Either: A Moderate Proposal on the Deficit
- NOTES
- INDEX