1st Edition
Bounded Bureaucracy and the Budgetary Process in the United States
By Jay Ryu
Copyright 2011
223 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
223 Pages
by
Routledge
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Bureaucracies have been criticized from various perspectives and blamed for a variety of failings. Critics have claimed that bureaucracies are too focused on conforming to rules rather than achieving an organization's core mission. Bureaucracies are said to oppress human freedom because of their orientation toward hierarchical control. Bureaucratic organizations are also said to be unable to deal... Read more
Preface1 Bureaucraticization of Budget Processes: Causing or Remedying Bounded Rationality?Bounded Rationality of Decision MakersBounded Bureaucracy as a Remedy to Bounded RationalityCentral Budget Offices: Enhancing InformationProcessing and Reducing Institutional ConflictsBureaucracy to Save Bureaucratic Malfunctions2 Bounded Rationality in Policy and Budget ProcessesBounded Rationality and SatisficingIncrementalismSerial JudgmentDisproportionate Information ProcessingConclusion3 Bureaucratic Organizations as a Remedy to Bounded RationalityBureaucratic Organizations: Extending Human Cognitive and Analytical CapacitiesBureaucratic Centralization: Expediting Information Processing and Reducing Institutional FrictionsBureaucratic Centralization and Moderating Impact of Organizational StrategiesBureaucratic Centralization and Partisan ConfigurationsConclusion: Bounded Bureaucracy to Bounded Rationality4 Bureaucratic Centralization and the National Executive Budget ProcessU.S. Budget Outcomes: 1961–2006Bureaucratic Centralization in Presidents' BudgetsInstitutional Frictions in the U.S. Budget ProcessBureaucratic Centralization and U.S. BudgetPunctuations 81Bureaucratic Centralization and U.S. Budget StabilityConclusion5 Bureaucratic Centralization and the Congressional Budget ProcessCongressional Macrobudgeting: Institutions and Partisan PoliticsThe Congressional Budget Offi ce (CBO): A Bipartisan Information ProcessorBureaucratic Centralization and U.S. Budget PunctuationsBureaucratic Centralization and U.S. Budget StabilityConclusion6 Bureaucratic Centralization and the State Budget ProcessState Budget Outcomes: 1993, 1996, 1998, and 2000State Executive BudgetsState Legislative BudgetsState Budget Institutions: Item Veto and BalancedBudget RequirementsBounded Bureaucracy and the Budgetary Process in the United StatesBureaucratic Centralization and State Budget PunctuationsBureaucratic Centralization and State Budget StabilityConclusionAppendix: Legislative Professionalization and State Budget Punctuations and Stability7 Conclusion: Bounded Bureaucracy to Bounded RationalityBibliographyIndex
Biography
Jay Ryu
