1st Edition
Public Spending Decisions Growth and Restraint in the 1970s
Edited By Maurice Wright
Copyright 1980
178 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1980, Public Spending Decisions attempts to answer some important questions regarding public spending and its relationship with economic and financial stringency. By the beginning of the 1970s the expectation of continuing economic growth had become implicit in the attitudes of politicians, administrators, and the public in Britain; likewise, the assumption of the growth of... Read more
List of contributors Preface 1. Introduction Maurice Wright 2. From Growth to Standstill J. D. Stewart 3. Incremental Budgeting and the Assumption of Growth: The Experience of Local Government Royston Greenwood, C. R. Hinings, Stuart Ranson, and K. Walsh 4. The Organisational Consequences of Financial Restraint in Local Government C. R. Hinings, Royston Greenwood, Stuart Ranson, and K. Walsh 5. The Context of Central Administration J.M. Lee 6. From Planning to Control: PESC in the 1970s Maurice Wright 7. Public Expenditure and Welfare Peter Self 8. Growth, Restraint and Rationality Maurice Wright Index
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Edited by Maurice Wright
