Public Budgeting in Context

PREFACE

This book examines public budgeting across levels of government in the United States and describes the legal foundations for budgeting and its practice in a few industrialized and developing countries around the world. To date, there are few books that investigate public budgeting across numerous governments with different legal, political, economic, and fiscal structures and capacities. The purpose of this book is to provide readers a clear picture of public budgeting in a sample of governments of various structures, fiscal capacities, and from continents all over the world. The reader is introduced to concepts related to the best practice of public budgeting and to several prominent theoretical perspectives about how public budgeting ...