Philip G Joyce
Biographic Data
| ID | 4398879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip G Joyce |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip G |
| FAMILY NAME | Joyce |
| SIGNATURE | JOYCE P G |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7558-5619 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Navigating the Power of the Purse—Fiscal Irresponsibility, Process Failures, and the New Constitutional Stress Test
The federal government, and its budget process, are facing unprecedented challenges. The federal debt is at historic levels, the process is in disarray, and the constitutional balance of powers is being challenged as never before. The debt, driven by growth in entitlement spending, stands at $38 trillion and is projected to continue to grow if no changes are made. The appropriation process has completely broken down. Thirty years have passed sinc…
Social Equity Practices in Public Financial Management: A Conceptual Review and Proposed Reforms
Equity has been at the core of public finance going at least as far back as 1776 when Adam Smith included it as one of four canons of a good tax in his classic An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Tax Project Institute 2025). Smith postulated that equity should be based on a taxpayer's ability to pay, establishing the foundation that defined equity by comparing taxes to income and wealth. This orientation of the equity …
Racial Equity in Public Budgeting: An Analysis of Three Pioneer Cases
Over the past decade, pressure has mounted for governments to address the effects of racial disparities and systemic racism. Some governments have implemented racial equity reforms that build on the public budgeting cycle as a system that can help filter new interventions and push for redesigning existing ones. This paper presents in-depth case studies of three local governments that are pioneers in advancing racial equity through public budgetin…
A Polyphonic Debate on Social Equity Budgeting
This paper is polyphonic (i.e., a debate involving multiple perspectives) and highlights emerging interdisciplinary thoughts on past, current, and future social equity budgeting (SEB). We present a vision for the field and emphasize the potential impact of this paper. We hope to enliven debates regarding context, underpinning philosophies, and methods, thus fostering a greater theoretical and practical reconsideration of SEB. The impact of this p…
Towards inclusive public administration systems: Public budgeting from the perspective of critical race theory
While there is a developing consensus that governments need to address systemic racism, public administration scholarship has not played a large role in supporting policymakers who want to achieve that end. To institutionalize that effort, we analyze the budget process as a setting to identify inequities and incorporate social equity given its overarching reach across all programs and policies. This article uses the tenets of critical race theory…
Government responses to the coronavirus in the United States: Immediate remedial actions, rising debt levels and budgetary hangovers
Purpose This paper reviews the response of both the national and state governments in the United States to the coronavirus pandemic and discusses budgetary challenges that are likely to be faced by the country over the next several years. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses government sources, analysis by internal and external think tanks and contemporaneous media accounts to describe both the problem and the governmental responses. Findin…
Budgetary responses to a global pandemic: International experiences and lessons for a sustainable future
Besides the public health concerns and the tragic loss of life, this global pandemic has also generated severe political, social and financial challenges in many countries Besides in-depth case studies, the SI also contains cross-country comparative analyses and conceptual discussion about the revised role of public budgeting Because of these measures, many countries, including those that had strong fiscal discipline and sound budgetary balances …
The Obama Administration and PBB: Building on the Legacy of Federal Performance‐Informed Budgeting
The administration of President Barack Obama, like those of his immediate predecessors, is focused on trying to improve the quality of, and use of, performance data. The federal government has been pursuing performance‐informed budget reforms for more than 50 years. Most recently, the Bush administration reforms included the President’s Management Agenda and the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART). The Obama administration reforms include: meas…
Public Budgeting in 2020: Return to Equilibrium, or Continued Mismatch between Demands and Resources
Public budgeting in 2010 is dominated, at all levels of government, by continuing high demands for government services and large budget deficits. Looking ahead to 2020, these struggles are likely to continue. The federal government’s 10‐year budget outlook is bleak, and its longer‐term outlook is even more dismal, driven by growth in health care costs. State and local government budgets will slowly recover from the effects of the recent recession…
Does more (or even better) information lead to better budgeting? A new perspective
Policy analysis can inform federal budget choices, but only if there is political will
Government Performance: Management Systems in State and Local Government
Based on five years of extensive research by the Government Performance Project, this volume offers a comprehensive analysis of how government managers and elected officials use management and management systems to improve performance. Drawing on data from across the nation, it examines the performance of state, county, and city governments between 1997 and 2002 within the framework of basic management systems: financial information, human resour…
A Framework for Analyzing Emergency Management with an Application to Federal Budgeting
Emergency management is a complex policy subsystem that involves an intergovernmental, multiphased effort to mitigate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters. This article develops a framework for analyzing the fiscal and functional aspects of disaster policy. It uses established theories of intergovernmental relations to offer a rationale for examining the capabilities required to implement disaster policy and the behavioral incenti…
The Federal Line-Item Veto: What Is It and What Will It Do
Presidents since Ulysses S. Grant have desired line-item veto authority, but President Clinton became the first to acquire it when the Line Item Veto Act (P.L. 104-130) took effect on January 1, 1997. legislation established, for an eight-year period that ends on January 1, 2005, a statutory variant of the item veto. Although the law is not a direct substitute for a constitutionally provided item veto, it has the potential to significantly alter …
Tax and Expenditure Limitations and State and Local Fiscal Structure: An Empirical Assessment
The tax and expenditure limitation (TEL) “movement” of the 1970s and 1980s can be characterized in part as a struggle between local autonomy and state control. Undeniable shifts have occurred over the same period in state and local revenue systems and functional responsibilities. This article places these shifts within the context of this movement, using pooled, cross‐sectional, time‐series techniques for the period between 1970 and 1990, in an e…
Congressional Budget Reform: The Unanticipated Implications for Federal Policy Making
The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, the landmark piece of legislation that created the congressional process, is now more than 20 years old. The process has undergone substantial revisions since its inception, largely the result of a change in the focus of the process from priority setting to controlling the size of the federal and federal deficits. Many of these changes have had consequences (some of them unanticipated)…
The Changing Fiscal Structure of the State and Local Public Sector: The Impact of Tax and Expenditure Limitations
An Analysis of the Factors Affecting the Employment Tenure of Federal Political Executives
The issue of tenure among political executives has been hypothesized to be important in understanding the ability of presidents to implement policy. While it has been demonstrated that these executives remain in their appointed position for a very short period of time and theories have been developed to explain this short tenure, previous work has not tested these hypotheses statistically. This article uses data from a 1985 National Academy of Pu…
Public Budgeting Systems
A complete and balanced reference, Public Budgeting Systems, Eighth Edition surveys the current state of budgeting throughout all levels of the United States government. The text emphasizes methods by which financial decisions are reached within a system as well as ways in which different types of information are used in budgetary decision-making. It also stresses the use of program information, since, for decades, budget reforms have sought to i…
Does more (or even better) information lead to better budgeting? A new perspective
Towards inclusive public administration systems: Public budgeting from the perspective of critical race theory
While there is a developing consensus that governments need to address systemic racism, public administration scholarship has not played a large role in supporting policymakers who want to achieve that end. To institutionalize that effort, we analyze the budget process as a setting to identify inequities and incorporate social equity given its overarching reach across all programs and policies. This article uses the tenets of critical race theory…
Racial Equity in Public Budgeting: An Analysis of Three Pioneer Cases
Over the past decade, pressure has mounted for governments to address the effects of racial disparities and systemic racism. Some governments have implemented racial equity reforms that build on the public budgeting cycle as a system that can help filter new interventions and push for redesigning existing ones. This paper presents in-depth case studies of three local governments that are pioneers in advancing racial equity through public budgetin…
An Analysis of the Factors Affecting the Employment Tenure of Federal Political Executives
The issue of tenure among political executives has been hypothesized to be important in understanding the ability of presidents to implement policy. While it has been demonstrated that these executives remain in their appointed position for a very short period of time and theories have been developed to explain this short tenure, previous work has not tested these hypotheses statistically. This article uses data from a 1985 National Academy of Pu…
An Analysis of the Factors Affecting the Employment Tenure of Federal Political Executives
The issue of tenure among political executives has been hypothesized to be important in understanding the ability of presidents to implement policy. While it has been demonstrated that these executives remain in their appointed position for a very short period of time and theories have been developed to explain this short tenure, previous work has not tested these hypotheses statistically. This article uses data from a 1985 National Academy of Pu…
Public Budgeting Systems
A complete and balanced reference, Public Budgeting Systems, Eighth Edition surveys the current state of budgeting throughout all levels of the United States government. The text emphasizes methods by which financial decisions are reached within a system as well as ways in which different types of information are used in budgetary decision-making. It also stresses the use of program information, since, for decades, budget reforms have sought to i…
The Changing Fiscal Structure of the State and Local Public Sector: The Impact of Tax and Expenditure Limitations
Tax and Expenditure Limitations and State and Local Fiscal Structure: An Empirical Assessment
The tax and expenditure limitation (TEL) “movement” of the 1970s and 1980s can be characterized in part as a struggle between local autonomy and state control. Undeniable shifts have occurred over the same period in state and local revenue systems and functional responsibilities. This article places these shifts within the context of this movement, using pooled, cross‐sectional, time‐series techniques for the period between 1970 and 1990, in an e…
Congressional Budget Reform: The Unanticipated Implications for Federal Policy Making
The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, the landmark piece of legislation that created the congressional process, is now more than 20 years old. The process has undergone substantial revisions since its inception, largely the result of a change in the focus of the process from priority setting to controlling the size of the federal and federal deficits. Many of these changes have had consequences (some of them unanticipated)…
The Federal Line-Item Veto: What Is It and What Will It Do
Presidents since Ulysses S. Grant have desired line-item veto authority, but President Clinton became the first to acquire it when the Line Item Veto Act (P.L. 104-130) took effect on January 1, 1997. legislation established, for an eight-year period that ends on January 1, 2005, a statutory variant of the item veto. Although the law is not a direct substitute for a constitutionally provided item veto, it has the potential to significantly alter …
A Framework for Analyzing Emergency Management with an Application to Federal Budgeting
Emergency management is a complex policy subsystem that involves an intergovernmental, multiphased effort to mitigate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters. This article develops a framework for analyzing the fiscal and functional aspects of disaster policy. It uses established theories of intergovernmental relations to offer a rationale for examining the capabilities required to implement disaster policy and the behavioral incenti…
Government Performance: Management Systems in State and Local Government
Based on five years of extensive research by the Government Performance Project, this volume offers a comprehensive analysis of how government managers and elected officials use management and management systems to improve performance. Drawing on data from across the nation, it examines the performance of state, county, and city governments between 1997 and 2002 within the framework of basic management systems: financial information, human resour…
Does more (or even better) information lead to better budgeting? A new perspective
Policy analysis can inform federal budget choices, but only if there is political will
Public Budgeting in 2020: Return to Equilibrium, or Continued Mismatch between Demands and Resources
Public budgeting in 2010 is dominated, at all levels of government, by continuing high demands for government services and large budget deficits. Looking ahead to 2020, these struggles are likely to continue. The federal government’s 10‐year budget outlook is bleak, and its longer‐term outlook is even more dismal, driven by growth in health care costs. State and local government budgets will slowly recover from the effects of the recent recession…
The Obama Administration and PBB: Building on the Legacy of Federal Performance‐Informed Budgeting
The administration of President Barack Obama, like those of his immediate predecessors, is focused on trying to improve the quality of, and use of, performance data. The federal government has been pursuing performance‐informed budget reforms for more than 50 years. Most recently, the Bush administration reforms included the President’s Management Agenda and the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART). The Obama administration reforms include: meas…
Government responses to the coronavirus in the United States: Immediate remedial actions, rising debt levels and budgetary hangovers
Purpose This paper reviews the response of both the national and state governments in the United States to the coronavirus pandemic and discusses budgetary challenges that are likely to be faced by the country over the next several years. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses government sources, analysis by internal and external think tanks and contemporaneous media accounts to describe both the problem and the governmental responses. Findin…
Budgetary responses to a global pandemic: International experiences and lessons for a sustainable future
Besides the public health concerns and the tragic loss of life, this global pandemic has also generated severe political, social and financial challenges in many countries Besides in-depth case studies, the SI also contains cross-country comparative analyses and conceptual discussion about the revised role of public budgeting Because of these measures, many countries, including those that had strong fiscal discipline and sound budgetary balances …
Towards inclusive public administration systems: Public budgeting from the perspective of critical race theory
While there is a developing consensus that governments need to address systemic racism, public administration scholarship has not played a large role in supporting policymakers who want to achieve that end. To institutionalize that effort, we analyze the budget process as a setting to identify inequities and incorporate social equity given its overarching reach across all programs and policies. This article uses the tenets of critical race theory…
A Polyphonic Debate on Social Equity Budgeting
This paper is polyphonic (i.e., a debate involving multiple perspectives) and highlights emerging interdisciplinary thoughts on past, current, and future social equity budgeting (SEB). We present a vision for the field and emphasize the potential impact of this paper. We hope to enliven debates regarding context, underpinning philosophies, and methods, thus fostering a greater theoretical and practical reconsideration of SEB. The impact of this p…
Racial Equity in Public Budgeting: An Analysis of Three Pioneer Cases
Over the past decade, pressure has mounted for governments to address the effects of racial disparities and systemic racism. Some governments have implemented racial equity reforms that build on the public budgeting cycle as a system that can help filter new interventions and push for redesigning existing ones. This paper presents in-depth case studies of three local governments that are pioneers in advancing racial equity through public budgetin…
Navigating the Power of the Purse—Fiscal Irresponsibility, Process Failures, and the New Constitutional Stress Test
The federal government, and its budget process, are facing unprecedented challenges. The federal debt is at historic levels, the process is in disarray, and the constitutional balance of powers is being challenged as never before. The debt, driven by growth in entitlement spending, stands at $38 trillion and is projected to continue to grow if no changes are made. The appropriation process has completely broken down. Thirty years have passed sinc…
Social Equity Practices in Public Financial Management: A Conceptual Review and Proposed Reforms
Equity has been at the core of public finance going at least as far back as 1776 when Adam Smith included it as one of four canons of a good tax in his classic An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Tax Project Institute 2025). Smith postulated that equity should be based on a taxpayer's ability to pay, establishing the foundation that defined equity by comparing taxes to income and wealth. This orientation of the equity …
Political science (14 works) · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy (11 works) · Local Government Finance and Decentralization (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Public Administration (9 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (8 works) · Public Administration (8 works) · Politics (7 works)