Allen Schick
Biographic Data
| ID | 700309 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allen Schick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allen |
| FAMILY NAME | Schick |
| SIGNATURE | SCHICK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9230-6503 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Dynamics of early agriculture – multivariate analysis of changes in crop cultivation and farming practices in the Rhineland (Germany) between the 6th and early 4th millennium BCE
First evidence for food production in continental Europe dates to the late 7 th (Southeast Europe) and the 6 th mill. BCE (Central and Western Europe). Early farming practices, however, were not static and underwent considerable changes and developments in the centuries and millennia following their arrival. Regionally varying processes of standardisation and diversification can be observed. To gain a deeper understanding of these processes on a …
The federal budget
Why Most Developing Countries Should Not Try New Zealand's Reforms
During the past decade New Zealand has introduced far-reaching reforms in the structure and operation of government departments and agencies. This model has attracted interest in developing countries because it promises significant gains in operational efficiency. But developing countries, which are dominated by informal markets, are risky candidates for applying the New Zealand model. The author suggests that basic reforms to strengthen rule-bas…
The Growth of the Public Sector
The Capacity to Budget
Improvisation and Bleakness
Budgeting for Results
This article reports on recent developments in five countries: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. The material is drawn from documentary sources and interviews in all of the countries except Australia.3 After describing each country's approach, the article analyzes common themes and differences. The order in which country descriptions appear has been dictated by affinities in their approaches. The two Scandinavian countri…
Micro-Budgetary Adaptations to Fiscal Stress in Industrialized Democracies
A previous article by this author examined the manner in which industrialized democracies have adapted their macro-budgetary practices to fiscal stress.' This article extends the discussion to adjustments in micro budgeting. The findings presented here are drawn from surveys and interviews conducted by the author in a number of member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).2 Budgeting is an adaptive process;…
Macro-Budgetary Adaptations to Fiscal Stress in Industrialized Democracies
A Tale of Two Agencies
Report of the Tresurer, 1982-83
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Report of the Treasurer, 1981-82
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Congress and Money
New Directions in U. S. Congressional Research
In Congress Reassembled
Reconciliation forces Congress to consider issues in redistributive terms and alters traditional roles and relationships, but this legislative technique may be short-lived . The 1981 battle of the budget might leave a deeper imprint on legislative behavior than on federal programs and expenditures. The process that produced the omnibus reconciliation bill was extraordinary in its scope and in its integration of diverse legislative activities. Mor…
Executive Policy‐Making Authority and Using Zero‐Base Budgeting for Allocating Resources
The objective of this article is to examine how executive policy‐making authority is affected by allocating public resources via zero‐base budgeting (ZBB). After reviewing the concept and rationale of ZBB, the article compares incremental policy‐making with scientific policy‐making. This review and comparison are then used to draw implications of using ZBB. Ultimately the article argues that ZBB will result in greater policy‐making authority in t…
The Road from ZBB
The first president to promise a zero base budget has delivered the most incremental financial statement since Wildavsky canonized that form of budget-making more than a dozen years ago. The fiscal 1979 budget (unveiled on January 23, 1978) hardly terminates or curtails anything of significance, continues most spending at inflationadjusted levels, and offers few program initiatives. It projects an expenditure growth of $40 billion, all but $8 bil…
Contemporary Problems in Financial Control
Budget Gap
Beyond Analysis
Political Science Isn't As Political Science Does
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Congress and the "Details" of Administration
A former President once wrote of Congress: has entered more and more into the of until it has virtually taken into its own the substantial powers of government.' This protest was not composed by a recent President railing against the renascent assertiveness of Congress in the post Vietnam-Watergate era. It was written by Woodrow Wilson in 1885, almost 30 years before he attained the presidency,2 and only two years before the publication of his in…
The Intergovernmental Thicket
Budgeting-An Author and a Reviewer Comment
Post-Burkhead
From Analysis to Evaluation
During the 1960's, program innovation and social analysis bloomed concurrently. Especially during the mid-years of that decade, many new social enterprises were spurred by the confident analyses of social scientists. The 1970's, however, have ushered in a period of program evaluation and public retrospection. The emphasis no longer is on building a record of program initiatives or on projecting the cost-effectiveness of prospective federal polici…
A Tale of Two Agencies
Congress and Money
Executive Policy‐Making Authority and Using Zero‐Base Budgeting for Allocating Resources
The objective of this article is to examine how executive policy‐making authority is affected by allocating public resources via zero‐base budgeting (ZBB). After reviewing the concept and rationale of ZBB, the article compares incremental policy‐making with scientific policy‐making. This review and comparison are then used to draw implications of using ZBB. Ultimately the article argues that ZBB will result in greater policy‐making authority in t…
Control Patterns in State Budget Execution
A SIGNIFICANT development in state budgetary practices during past thirty years has been proliferation of centralized controls over expenditures after budget has been approved by legislature.' A. E. Buck's comprehensive study, Public Budgeting, published in 1929, contained only six pages on controls utilized in execution phase of budget.2 Yet, in 1959 Professor James W. Martin claimed that the most important area of decision-making is area of bud…
House Versus Senate
Systems Politics and Systems Budgeting
The cybernetic state
From Analysis to Evaluation
During the 1960's, program innovation and social analysis bloomed concurrently. Especially during the mid-years of that decade, many new social enterprises were spurred by the confident analyses of social scientists. The 1970's, however, have ushered in a period of program evaluation and public retrospection. The emphasis no longer is on building a record of program initiatives or on projecting the cost-effectiveness of prospective federal polici…
Five Theories in Search of an Urban Crisis
Post-Burkhead
A Death in the Bureaucracy
By these words, PPB became an unthing. No publicity or press release; only an erasure from the administrative record. The death notice was conveyed on June 21, 1971, in a memorandum accompanying Circular A-11, the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) annual ritual for the preparation and submission of agency budget requests. No mention was made in the memo of the three initials which had dazzled the world of
Budgeting-An Author and a Reviewer Comment
The Intergovernmental Thicket
Political Science Isn't As Political Science Does
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Congress and the "Details" of Administration
A former President once wrote of Congress: has entered more and more into the of until it has virtually taken into its own the substantial powers of government.' This protest was not composed by a recent President railing against the renascent assertiveness of Congress in the post Vietnam-Watergate era. It was written by Woodrow Wilson in 1885, almost 30 years before he attained the presidency,2 and only two years before the publication of his in…
Budget Gap
Beyond Analysis
The Road from ZBB
The first president to promise a zero base budget has delivered the most incremental financial statement since Wildavsky canonized that form of budget-making more than a dozen years ago. The fiscal 1979 budget (unveiled on January 23, 1978) hardly terminates or curtails anything of significance, continues most spending at inflationadjusted levels, and offers few program initiatives. It projects an expenditure growth of $40 billion, all but $8 bil…
Contemporary Problems in Financial Control
Executive Policy‐Making Authority and Using Zero‐Base Budgeting for Allocating Resources
The objective of this article is to examine how executive policy‐making authority is affected by allocating public resources via zero‐base budgeting (ZBB). After reviewing the concept and rationale of ZBB, the article compares incremental policy‐making with scientific policy‐making. This review and comparison are then used to draw implications of using ZBB. Ultimately the article argues that ZBB will result in greater policy‐making authority in t…
New Directions in U. S. Congressional Research
In Congress Reassembled
Reconciliation forces Congress to consider issues in redistributive terms and alters traditional roles and relationships, but this legislative technique may be short-lived . The 1981 battle of the budget might leave a deeper imprint on legislative behavior than on federal programs and expenditures. The process that produced the omnibus reconciliation bill was extraordinary in its scope and in its integration of diverse legislative activities. Mor…
Report of the Treasurer, 1981-82
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Congress and Money
Report of the Tresurer, 1982-83
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A Tale of Two Agencies
Macro-Budgetary Adaptations to Fiscal Stress in Industrialized Democracies
Micro-Budgetary Adaptations to Fiscal Stress in Industrialized Democracies
A previous article by this author examined the manner in which industrialized democracies have adapted their macro-budgetary practices to fiscal stress.' This article extends the discussion to adjustments in micro budgeting. The findings presented here are drawn from surveys and interviews conducted by the author in a number of member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).2 Budgeting is an adaptive process;…
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