Irene S Rubin
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 170811 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Irene S Rubin |
| PRENOMES | Irene S |
| SOBRENOME | Rubin |
| ASSINATURA | RUBIN I S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Northern Illinois University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 90 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1973 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Past and Future Budget Classics
This article summarizes the content of four classic articles on budgeting that have appeared in Public Administration Review, outlines some of the major changes in budgeting that have occurred since those authors wrote, and, based on those changes, offers a research agenda for the next set of budget classics
The Executive Budget in the Federal Government
This article reviews the history of executive budgeting in the United States a century after President William Howard Taft's Economy and Efficiency Commission proposed an executive budget. This history, the authors argue, does not suggest that giving more budget power to the president will improve budget outcomes. Instead, what is needed is more cooperation between the branches of government and a better‐educated public—goals that were shared by …
The Great Unraveling
Since 1998, budgeting reforms at the federal level have unraveled extensively. The budget process has become ad hoc, fragmented, and opaque, balance has been elusive, and the failure to prioritize has become endemic. One cause was the mismatch between the budget process in 1998, which was designed to eliminate deficits, and the emerging budgetary surpluses of that time. A second contributing factor was the desire to reduce taxes while expenditure…
Queering the Interview
Budgeting for the Millenium
The year 2000 is almost upon us. Figuring out the implications of the millennium for budgeters is an urgent task: This editorial lays out some likely scenarios. To budgeters used to thinking in terms of annual and biennial budgets, a millennial budget is a new concept. Millennial budgeting for some budgeters, especially in CBO, OMB, and GAO, means budgeting for the next 1000 years. They are already projecting thirty years out. What is another 970…
Budgeting
Qualitative interviewing
Early Budget Reformers
An examination of the writings of the early budget reformers suggests a major break between the progressive era reform proposals in the early 1900s and the budget proposals of the Taft era conservatives beginning in 1912. Progressives favored expansionary, activist government; Taft conservatives wanted to shrink government. Progressives focused more on cost effectiveness; Taft conservatives focused more on efficiency and cost cutting. Progressive…
Who Invented Budgeting in the United States
Budget Reform and Political Reform
Municipal budgeting, especially in larger cities, has changed over the last 20 years. A variety of tools like program formats, long-term revenue and expenditure projections, management-by-objectives (MBO), zerobased and target-based budgets, capital budgeting, and strategic planning have become commonplace (Poister and Streib, 1989). A surprisingly large number of cities are using some performance monitoring (Poister and Streib, p. 242
Overhaul of the Budget Process
Budget Reform in St. Louis
Budget reforms have washed over U.S. cities at odd intervals. In the 1880s and 1890s, budgeting began either in the controller's office or with a group of officials commonly called a Board of Estimate. In the early 1900s, the executive budget reforms took shape, with increasing authority for the formation of the budget proposal located in the mayor's office. In the late 1960s, the emphasis was more on program budgeting and technical analysis for …
Politics of Public Budgeting
Budget Theory and Budget Practice
Theory in budgeting, like much of public administration, has been of two kinds, descriptive and normative. Descriptive theory is based on close observation or participation in public sector activities. Theorists describe trends, sequences of events, and infer causes, paying attention to local variations as well as uniformities across cases. Normative theory-advice-may be based on a much narrower range of observations than descriptive theory and i…
Aaron Wildavsky and the Demise of Incrementalism
Municipal Enterprises
Public enterprises are business-type activities which are supported by or owned and run by government agencies, which set prices (fees) and charge for goods or services. Enterprises are different from other governmental services because they support themselves in whole or in part from fees or income they generate. Accounting for enterprises must record revenue generated by an entity, account realistically for expenditures, and apply the revenue g…
Economic Development Incentives
After establishing a way of classifying economic development incentives, this article examines four different explanations of why cities differ in their willingness to provide such incentives to encourage business growth. In order of explanatory power the explanations are citizen need, administrative capacity, fiscal stress, and the process of growth. Specific types of cities are more willing to use some incentives than others. Some underlying ru…
Regional Political Economy
Structural Theories and Urban Fiscal Stress
This article compares neo-Marxist and public choice theories of urban fiscal stress with descriptive data about the generation and consequences of fiscal stress in a number of cities in the 1970s. Each theory was found to be only partly descriptive of real life events. To create a more complete description, I integrate commensurable elements of neo-Marxism and public choice theory with more contingent factors, such as political vulnerability to c…
Much Ado about Everything
The Politics of Retrenchment
Levine, Rubin, and Wolohojian's study is an important addition to the urban politics and administration literature...The book fulfills its purpose; it is valuable for both urban administrators and students of urban administration.' -- Perspective, March 1983 '...provides valuable insights for urban theorists with a sociological interest in the political economy of retrenchment.' -- Contemporary Sociology, Vol 12 No 6, November 1983
Evaluation for Cutback Management in Small Cities
Problems of undertaking applied research in small cities planning economic cutbacks are explored. Researchers face problems in balancing administrative and political pressures. Predetermined ideas held by members of the city council on how the city should cut back services might cause politicians to ignore the findings of the study. While the belief of department heads that the study was simply going to excuse cutbacks could cause difficulty in d…
The Politics of Retrenchment
Managing Organizational Retrenchament
This article presents a discussion of the preconditions necessary for managing a contraction. It examines the constraints operative in the public sector which exclude or limit the availability of the prerequisites for public managers to effectively manage retrenchment. Then it describes how a public organization without these prerequisites behaves under conditions of fiscal stress by using a multistage model of public sector contraction that incl…
Fiscal Stress and Public Policy, Sage Yearbooks in Politics and Public Policy, Vol. 9
Past and Future Budget Classics
This article summarizes the content of four classic articles on budgeting that have appeared in Public Administration Review, outlines some of the major changes in budgeting that have occurred since those authors wrote, and, based on those changes, offers a research agenda for the next set of budget classics
The Great Unraveling
Since 1998, budgeting reforms at the federal level have unraveled extensively. The budget process has become ad hoc, fragmented, and opaque, balance has been elusive, and the failure to prioritize has become endemic. One cause was the mismatch between the budget process in 1998, which was designed to eliminate deficits, and the emerging budgetary surpluses of that time. A second contributing factor was the desire to reduce taxes while expenditure…
Aaron Wildavsky and the Demise of Incrementalism
The Politics of Retrenchment
Retrenchment, Loose Structure and Adaptability in the University
This article focuses on the structural components of adaptability during retrenchment in five universities. The works of Simon and Glassman on loose structure are combined, adapted to organizational settings and operationalized to arrive at propositions relating looseness to adaptability. The propositions are then examined in light of case study data. On examining the data, it is clear that the hypothesized benefits of loose structure did not gen…
Budgeting
Early Budget Reformers
An examination of the writings of the early budget reformers suggests a major break between the progressive era reform proposals in the early 1900s and the budget proposals of the Taft era conservatives beginning in 1912. Progressives favored expansionary, activist government; Taft conservatives wanted to shrink government. Progressives focused more on cost effectiveness; Taft conservatives focused more on efficiency and cost cutting. Progressive…
Managing Organizational Retrenchament
This article presents a discussion of the preconditions necessary for managing a contraction. It examines the constraints operative in the public sector which exclude or limit the availability of the prerequisites for public managers to effectively manage retrenchment. Then it describes how a public organization without these prerequisites behaves under conditions of fiscal stress by using a multistage model of public sector contraction that incl…
Effects of Institutional Change upon a Dependency Culture
Research Article| March 01 1973 Effects of Institutional Change upon a Dependency Culture: The Commune Council 275 in Rural Thailand Herbert J. Rubin, Herbert J. Rubin Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Irene S. Rubin Irene S. Rubin Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1944) 13 (3): 270–287. https://doi.org/10.2307/2643037 Views Icon Views Article cont…
Evaluation for Cutback Management in Small Cities
Problems of undertaking applied research in small cities planning economic cutbacks are explored. Researchers face problems in balancing administrative and political pressures. Predetermined ideas held by members of the city council on how the city should cut back services might cause politicians to ignore the findings of the study. While the belief of department heads that the study was simply going to excuse cutbacks could cause difficulty in d…
Preventing or Eliminating Planned Deficits
In the past few years, many United States cities have been coping with tax base erosion, and other revenue problems. Rapid inflation in expenditures has exaggerated the problem.' As a consequence, many cities have been faced with potential deficits and have had to make a series of difficult political and administrative decisions to close the widening gap between revenues and expenditures.' The political incentives in most urban politics are overw…
The Function of Liminal Events in the Succession to a Position of Power
One implication of the linkage of religious merit to power in Thailand is that changes in leadership require complete restructuring of hierarchical relationships. Assuming that descriptions of the merit and power linkage are correct, how can a society with such beliefs handle routine transfers of power that do not allow for much restructuring of subordinate ties? To answer this question, we shall examine the events in a routine administrative suc…
Effects of Institutional Change upon a Dependency Culture
Research Article| March 01 1973 Effects of Institutional Change upon a Dependency Culture: The Commune Council 275 in Rural Thailand Herbert J. Rubin, Herbert J. Rubin Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Irene S. Rubin Irene S. Rubin Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1944) 13 (3): 270–287. https://doi.org/10.2307/2643037 Views Icon Views Article cont…
Weber and Islam
The Function of Liminal Events in the Succession to a Position of Power
One implication of the linkage of religious merit to power in Thailand is that changes in leadership require complete restructuring of hierarchical relationships. Assuming that descriptions of the merit and power linkage are correct, how can a society with such beliefs handle routine transfers of power that do not allow for much restructuring of subordinate ties? To answer this question, we shall examine the events in a routine administrative suc…
Retrenchment, Loose Structure and Adaptability in the University
This article focuses on the structural components of adaptability during retrenchment in five universities. The works of Simon and Glassman on loose structure are combined, adapted to organizational settings and operationalized to arrive at propositions relating looseness to adaptability. The propositions are then examined in light of case study data. On examining the data, it is clear that the hypothesized benefits of loose structure did not gen…
Preventing or Eliminating Planned Deficits
In the past few years, many United States cities have been coping with tax base erosion, and other revenue problems. Rapid inflation in expenditures has exaggerated the problem.' As a consequence, many cities have been faced with potential deficits and have had to make a series of difficult political and administrative decisions to close the widening gap between revenues and expenditures.' The political incentives in most urban politics are overw…
Fiscal Stress and Public Policy, Sage Yearbooks in Politics and Public Policy, Vol. 9
Resource Scarcity and the Reform Model
The pluralist model of urban politics implicitly assumes expanding resources. In pluralist systems, resource expansion builds security and optimism about the future so that interest groups can bargain over increments without fear that their established expenditure base will be threatened. Growth in resources allows political maneuvering and bargaining to take place within the bonds of civility and provides politicians with the rewards necessary t…
The Politics of Retrenchment
Managing Organizational Retrenchament
This article presents a discussion of the preconditions necessary for managing a contraction. It examines the constraints operative in the public sector which exclude or limit the availability of the prerequisites for public managers to effectively manage retrenchment. Then it describes how a public organization without these prerequisites behaves under conditions of fiscal stress by using a multistage model of public sector contraction that incl…
The Politics of Retrenchment
Levine, Rubin, and Wolohojian's study is an important addition to the urban politics and administration literature...The book fulfills its purpose; it is valuable for both urban administrators and students of urban administration.' -- Perspective, March 1983 '...provides valuable insights for urban theorists with a sociological interest in the political economy of retrenchment.' -- Contemporary Sociology, Vol 12 No 6, November 1983
Evaluation for Cutback Management in Small Cities
Problems of undertaking applied research in small cities planning economic cutbacks are explored. Researchers face problems in balancing administrative and political pressures. Predetermined ideas held by members of the city council on how the city should cut back services might cause politicians to ignore the findings of the study. While the belief of department heads that the study was simply going to excuse cutbacks could cause difficulty in d…
Structural Theories and Urban Fiscal Stress
This article compares neo-Marxist and public choice theories of urban fiscal stress with descriptive data about the generation and consequences of fiscal stress in a number of cities in the 1970s. Each theory was found to be only partly descriptive of real life events. To create a more complete description, I integrate commensurable elements of neo-Marxism and public choice theory with more contingent factors, such as political vulnerability to c…
Much Ado about Everything
Economic Development Incentives
After establishing a way of classifying economic development incentives, this article examines four different explanations of why cities differ in their willingness to provide such incentives to encourage business growth. In order of explanatory power the explanations are citizen need, administrative capacity, fiscal stress, and the process of growth. Specific types of cities are more willing to use some incentives than others. Some underlying ru…
Regional Political Economy
Municipal Enterprises
Public enterprises are business-type activities which are supported by or owned and run by government agencies, which set prices (fees) and charge for goods or services. Enterprises are different from other governmental services because they support themselves in whole or in part from fees or income they generate. Accounting for enterprises must record revenue generated by an entity, account realistically for expenditures, and apply the revenue g…
Aaron Wildavsky and the Demise of Incrementalism
Overhaul of the Budget Process
Budget Reform in St. Louis
Budget reforms have washed over U.S. cities at odd intervals. In the 1880s and 1890s, budgeting began either in the controller's office or with a group of officials commonly called a Board of Estimate. In the early 1900s, the executive budget reforms took shape, with increasing authority for the formation of the budget proposal located in the mayor's office. In the late 1960s, the emphasis was more on program budgeting and technical analysis for …
Politics of Public Budgeting
Budget Theory and Budget Practice
Theory in budgeting, like much of public administration, has been of two kinds, descriptive and normative. Descriptive theory is based on close observation or participation in public sector activities. Theorists describe trends, sequences of events, and infer causes, paying attention to local variations as well as uniformities across cases. Normative theory-advice-may be based on a much narrower range of observations than descriptive theory and i…
Budget Reform and Political Reform
Municipal budgeting, especially in larger cities, has changed over the last 20 years. A variety of tools like program formats, long-term revenue and expenditure projections, management-by-objectives (MBO), zerobased and target-based budgets, capital budgeting, and strategic planning have become commonplace (Poister and Streib, 1989). A surprisingly large number of cities are using some performance monitoring (Poister and Streib, p. 242
Who Invented Budgeting in the United States
Early Budget Reformers
An examination of the writings of the early budget reformers suggests a major break between the progressive era reform proposals in the early 1900s and the budget proposals of the Taft era conservatives beginning in 1912. Progressives favored expansionary, activist government; Taft conservatives wanted to shrink government. Progressives focused more on cost effectiveness; Taft conservatives focused more on efficiency and cost cutting. Progressive…
Qualitative interviewing
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