Chapter SixExecutive Leadership and the Budget Agenda
Guiding the national economy in the context of political accountability involves shaping policy so that it serves both to foster the growth of material productivity and to spread the opportunity and legitimacy that nourishes democratic participation. Timing and the good fortune of favorable events also come into it, of course; no president is above blaming his predecessor or market transactions.
—M. Stephen Weatherford, 2009
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