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Wildavsky on budget reform

โœ Scribed by L. R. Jones

Publisher
Springer US
Year
1996-1997
Tongue
English
Weight
524 KB
Volume
29
Category
Article
ISSN
0032-2687

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โœฆ Synopsis

A large part of the literature on budgeting in the United States is concerned with reform.

The goals of proposed reforms are couched in similar language -economy, efficiency, improvement, or just better budgeting .... However, any effective change in budgetary relationships must necessarily alter the outcomes of the budgetary process. Otherwise, why bother? Far from being a neutral matter of 'better budgeting,' proposed reforms inevitably contain important implications for the political system, that is, the 'who gets what' of governmental decisions (Wildavsky, 1961: p. 186). ... budgeting is a subsystem of politics, not vise versa -because of the current tendency to overload budgeting. As much as I respect the importance of budgeting and the talents of budgeteers, to substitute budgeting for governing will not work (Wildavsky, 1992b: p. 439).

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