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Federal Budget Policy (Spring 2015)
Section 4 . 1
23 minutes + 3 links

Class Two -- Friday, January 31st

Howell E. Jackson

This class is an introduction to the evolution of budgeting in the United States. The principal reading is from Chapter Two of Allen Schick, The Federal Budget: Politics, Policy, Process (3rd ed., 2007), but you should also read over several contemporaneous treatments of budget policy in the post-World War II era, emphasizing the evolution from traditional budgeting circa 1964 (described in the excerpt from Aaron Widavsky's classic work) through the Seven-Year Budget War that followed (chronicled in the Allen Schick excerpt and epitomized by Train v. City of New York, 420 U.S. 35 (1975)). You need only skim the excerpts from the 1958 Congressional Digest.

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