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Legislative budget cycles

Public Choice, 2012
Recent literature suggests that electoral budget cycles are a phenomenon of new rather than established democracies. What part of the democratization process explains the amelioration of the political budget cycle? We argue the answer lies (in part) in the development of a strong party system.
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Budget and Legislation

1992
Abstract The legislative process which mainly affects NIH involves appropriations (budgeting funds) and authorizations (permission to carry out individual programs). Not only are these done by separate acts of Congress, but the bills are considered and recommended by separate committees of Congress.
Samuel M Schwartz, Mischa E Friedman
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Budget Transparency and Legislative Budgetary Oversight

The American Review of Public Administration, 2014
This article attempts to evaluate the role the legislative budgetary oversight plays in enhancing budget transparency. This relationship has not been empirically tested so far. For a sample of 93 countries surveyed by International Budget Partnership in 2010, we show that, as expected, legislative budgetary oversight has a positive influence on budget ...
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Nonpartisan Legislative Budget Offices: A Tentative Step toward Improving Legislative Oversight

Governance, 2010
Strengthening the budgetary powers of legislatures through nonpartisan budget offices adds to the capacity-building repertoire of development donors. Budget offices are supposed to provide legislatures with information and analysis independent from the executive.
JEFFREY D. STRAUSSMAN, ARI RENONI
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Legislators as Budget Initiators and Lobbyists

American Politics Quarterly, 1984
Little attention has been paid to the legislator as lobbyist and budget initiator. To assess this role, we have analyzed additions to the 1981 budget of three agencies by the Department of Interior and Related Agencies Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee.
John Wanat, Karen Burke, Marilyn Snodell
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Budget still dominates legislative agenda

Chemical & Engineering News Archive, 1996
Congress returns to work today after a three-week recess, just in time for President Clinton's third State of the Union Address, which he is scheduled to deliver on Capitol Hill this week. His reception may be somewhat chillier than normal, if, as is likely, he and Congress have not yet agreed on a plan to balance the federal budget no later than ...
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Perspectives on Legislative Budgeting

2010
The comparative study of political institutions has a venerable tradition in political science (Lijphart 1984, 1999; Weaver and Rockman 1993; Tsebelis 2002). Economists, too, have become increasingly interested in the policy effects of political institutions (for an overview, see Congleton and Swedenborg 2006a).
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Legislative Budget Review: An Economist's Viewpoint

Public Administration Review, 1964
Lewis emphasized the importance of incremental or marginal analysis in comparison of budget values, although he realistically recognized the difficulties of applying formal marginal analysis to more practical problems. This article suggests that formal economic analysis need not be involved in economic rationalization of public budgets. Rationality and
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