Congressional Budgeting: A Representational Perspective

by Patrick Fisher

In Congressional Budgeting, Patrick Fisher analyzes the problems inherent in the congressional budget process, and studies why congress makes the budgetary decisions that it does. Fisher argues that it is the representational nature of Congress that makes budgeting such a flawed process. Budgeting requires Congress to compromise parochial interests for the well being of the entire nation, focusing on macro-level budget decisions. It is the parochial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761829350
• ISBN13: 9780761829355
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"