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Is there a key to the normative budgeting lock?

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This article explores how to answer the normative question: ‘What is a good budgetary process?’ It proposes that a deliberative process involving practitioners and academics could identify and justify achievably ambitious standards for budgetary processes, and the best practices for attaining those standards. In hopes of beginning that deliberation, the article sets out a prototype model, and then applies the model to the federal budgetary process.

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Meyers, R.T. Is there a key to the normative budgeting lock?. Policy Sci 29, 171–188 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00136102

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