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Winter 2007 - Vol. 27 Issue 4

Original Articles

Performance Budgeting: The Perspective of State Agencies
YI LU

Determinants of Pay-as-You-Go Financing of Capital Projects: Evidence from the States
WEN WANG, YILIN HOU, and WILLIAM DUNCOME

Federal Highway Assistance Funds in the State Infrastructure Bank Programs: Mechanisms, Merits, and Modifications
JAY EUNGHA RYU

Road to Ruin? A Spatial Analysis of State Highway Spending
DONALD BRUCE, DEBORAH A. CARROLL, JOHN A. DESKINS, and JONATHAN C. RORK

Is Management Performance a Factor in Municipal Bond Credit Ratings? The Case of Texas School Districts
DWIGHT V. DENISON, WENLI YAN, and ZHIRONG (JERRY) ZHAO

Appraising Commitments and Guarantees with Option Prices
SŘREN LOENTOFT HANSEN, MICHAEL U. DOTHAN, and FRED THOMPSON


Fall 2007 - Vol. 27 Issue 3

Original Articles

Structural Deficits and State Borrowing Costs
EARL D. BENSON and BARRY R. MARKS

The Revenue Impact of Repeated Tax Amnesties HARI SHARAN LUITEL and RUSSELL S. SOBEL

Preventing Local Government Fiscal Crises: The North Carolina Approach
CHARLES K. COE

Business Management Reform in the Department of Defense in Anticipation of Declining Budgets
DOUGLAS A. BROOK and PHILIP J. CANDREVA

The Effect of Limiting Participation in Special District Elections to Property Owners: A Research Note
NICHOLAS BAUROTH

An Examination of the Public Good Externalities of Professional Athletic Venues: Justifications for Public Financing?
RICHARD W. SCHWESTER

Subnational Debt Swaps in Mexico, How Big Is Risk Exposure?
ALFONSO MENDOZA VELÁZQUEZ

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board: Déjŕ Vu Seidman's Quasi Government?
RONALD S. BOSTER

Book Review
Controlling Public Expenditure: The Changing Roles of Central Budget Agencies—Better Guardians? edited by John Wanna, Lotte Jensen, and Jouke de Vries
Reviewers: Spencer T. Brien and Robert J. Eger III


Summer 2007 - Vol. 27 Issue 2

Original Articles

Measuring Financial Condition: A Study of U.S. States
XIAOHU WANG, LYNDA DENNIS, and YUAN SEN (JEFF) TU

Effects of Administrators' Aspirations, Political Principals' Priorities, and Interest Groups' Influence on State Agency Budget Requests
JAY EUNGHA RYU, CYNTHIA J. BOWLING, CHUNG-LAE CHO, and DEIL S. WRIGHT

Unconditional Intergovernmental Transfers to Finance Decentralization in Albania
LARRY SCHROEDER

Can the Use of Recommended Procurement Practices Save Money?
WILLIAM DUNCOMBE and CYNTHIA SEARCY

Competition and Selection in Municipal Bond Sales: Evidence from Missouri
MARK D. ROBBINS and BILL SIMONSEN

Much Ado about Nothing? The Size and Credit Quality Implications of Municipal Other Postemployment Benefit Liabilities
JUSTIN MARLOWE

Book Reviews
Case Studies of City-County Consolidation: Reshaping the Local Government Landscape edited by Suzanne M. Leland and Kurt Thurmaier
Reviewer: Michael John Dougherty


Spring 2007 - Vol. 27 Issue 1

Original Articles

The Interregional Incidence of Central Budgets in Federations: Some Evidence from Canada
FRANÇOIS VAILLANCOURT and RICHARD M. BIRD

An Analysis of the Time to Adoption of Local Sales Taxes: A Duration Model Approach
DAVID L. SJOQUIST, WILLIAM J. SMITH, MARY BETH WALKER, and SALLY WALLACE

Developing Options for the Administration of Local Taxes: An International Review
JOHN L. MIKESELL

School Spending Profiles: A Framework to Enlighten Resource Allocation Decisions
MARGUERITE ROZA and CLAUDINE SWARTZ

The Implementation and Utilization of Stabilization Funds by Local Governments in Massachusetts
GERASIMOS (JERRY) GIANAKIS and DOUGLAS SNOW

Cost Effectiveness Analysis and Transportation: Practices, Problems, and Proposals
ROBERT J. EGER III and AMANDA L. WILSKER


Winter 2006 - Vol. 26 Issue 4

Original Articles

State Budgetary Processes and Reforms: The California Story
JULIET MUSSO, ELIZABETH GRADDY, and JENNIFER GRIZARD

State Debt Limits: How Many Are Enough?
DWIGHT V. DENISON, MERL HACKBART, and MICHAEL MOODY

Transparency of Risk and Reward in U.K. Public–Private Partnerships
JOHN HOOD, IAN FRASER, and NEIL McGARVEY

Guns vs. Taxes? A Look at How Defense Spending Affects U.S. Federal Tax Policy
DEBORAH A. CARROLL

From the Field

Performance-Based Budgeting: The Contribution of the Program Assessment Rating Tool
PATRICK R. MULLEN

Book Reviews

Budgeting and Financial Management for National Defense by Jeffrey L. MacCaffery and L.R. Jones
Reviewer: Jane Beckett-Camarata

Restoring Fiscal Sanity: How to Balance the Budget, edited by Alice M. Rivlin and Isabel Sawhill
Reviewer: Meili Niu


September 2006 - Vol. 26 Issue 3

Original Articles

The Strange Budgetary Politics of Agricultural Research Earmarks
MARC T. LAW and JOSEPH M. TONON

A Framework for Understanding State Balanced Budget Requirement Systems: Reexamining Distinctive Features and an Operational Definition
YILIN HOU and DANIEL L. SMITH

Putting the Brakes on the Rush to Spend Down End-of-Year Balances: Carryover Money in Oklahoma State Agencies
JAMES W. DOUGLAS and AIMEE L. FRANKLIN

Demographic, Employment, Expenditure, and Income-Related Dependency Ratios: Population Aging in the Fifty States
ERIC BRUCKER

Using Panel Data to Determine the Effect of the Americans with Disabilities Act on Per-Student Public Education Expenditures at the State Level
MARK P. GIUS

Book Reviews

The Encyclopedia of Taxation and Tax Policy, edited by Joseph J. Cordes, Robert D. Ebel, and Jane G. Gravelle
Reviewer: John L. Mikesell

Balancing the Federal Budget: Trimming the Herds or Eating the Seed Corn?, edited by Irene S. Rubin
Reviewer: Jeongwoo Kim


June 2006 - Vol. 26 Issue 2

Original Articles

The Line-Item Veto in Georgia: Fiscal Restraint or Inter-Branch Politics?
THOMAS P. LAUTH and CATHERINE C. REESE

Spending Preferences of Public Sector Officials: Survey Evidence from Finland
TAKIS VENETOKLIS and JAAKKO KIANDER

Accrual Budgeting: Accounting Treatment of Key Public Sector Items and Implications for Fiscal Policy
CARIDAD MARTÍ

Banking on Accountability? Strengthening Budget Oversight and Public Sector Auditing in Emerging Economies
CARLOS SANTISO

Linking Budgets to Activity: A Test of the Effect of Output-Purchase Budgeting
SŘREN SERRITZLEW

From the Field

Linking Accounting and Budget Data: A Discourse
JEFF HOGE and ED MARTIN

Proposals for Improving GPRA Annual Performance Plans
CHARLES F. BINGMAN

Book Reviews

State and Local Finances under Pressure
Reviewer: Changhoon Jung

Budgeting and Financial Management in the Federal Government
Reviewer: Steven G. Koven


March 2006 - Vol. 26 Issue 1

Original Articles

Budgeting for Contracting in Local Government
IRENE RUBIN

The Role of Slack in Local Government Finances
REBECCA HENDRICK

Cities, Tax Revenues, and a State's Fiscal Future: The Value of Major Urban Centers
WILLIAM M. BOWEN, MARIE ELLEN HAYNES and MARK S. ROSENTRAUB

Do State-Funded Property Tax Exemptions Increase Local Government Inefficiency? An Analysis of New York State's STAR Program
TAE HO EOM and ROSS RUBENSTEIN

Development of Local Government Debt Financing Markets: Application of a Market-Based Framework CHRISTINE R. MARTELL and GEORGE M. GUESS

Do Legislatures Matter in Budgetary Reform?
CAROLYN BOURDEAUX

From the Field

Social Security: Reliance on Cash Flow Accounting and Projections Disguises an Inherent Upside Cash Flow Bias
DAVID MOSSO

Performance Budgeting for State and Local Government
Aimee L. Franklin


December 2005 - Vol. 25 Issue 4s

Original Articles

Introduction: A Quarter Century of Public Budgeting & Finance
JOHN L. MIKESELL

Local Budgeting and Finance: 25 Years of Developments
DANIEL R. MULLINS and MICHAEL A. PAGANO

The State of State Budget Research
IRENE RUBIN

Congressional Budgeting at Age 30: Is It Worth Saving?
ROY T. MEYERS and PHILIP G. JOYCE

Public Financing in Developing and Transition Countries
ROY BAHL and SALLY WALLACE

Changing Revenue Policy in the United States: An Overview of the Record and Perennial Puzzles
JOHN L. MIKESELL

The Evolution of the State and Local Government Municipal Debt Market over the Past Quarter Century W. BARTLEY HILDRETH and C. KURT ZORN

The Discourse of Governmental Accounting and Auditing
JEAN HARRIS


December 2005 - Vol. 25 Issue 4

Original Articles

Congressional Delegation of Spending Power to the Defense Department in the Post-9–11 Period
PHILIP J. CANDREVA and L. R. JONES

Social Security, Taxation, and Redistribution in Japan
ALISON CHOPEL, NOZOMU KUNO, and SVEN STEINMO

Fiscal Reaction to State Aid Uncertainties: Evidence from New York State
ISTVÁN VÁNYOLÓS

Counting Retirement Expenditures Before They Hatch: GASB and the New Reporting Requirements for Other Postemployment Benefits
WILLIAM R. VOORHEES

Support for Earmarked Public Spending on Culture: Evidence from a Referendum in Metropolitan Detroit
MICHAEL RUSHTON

A Race to the Bottom? Exploring County Spending Shortfalls under Welfare Reform in North Carolina
MAUREEN BERNER

Spending Stabilization Rules: A Solution to Recurring State Budget Crises?
DONALD SCHUNK and DOUGLAS WOODWARD


September 2005 - Vol. 25 Issue 3

Original Articles

Reform of the Planning, Programming, Budgeting System, and Management Control in the U.S. Department of Defense: Insights from Budget Theory
L. R. Jones and Jerry L. McCaffery

Enron/Andersen: Crisis in U.S. Accounting and Lessons for Government
Richard E. Brown

The Role of Philanthropy in Local Government Finance
Renée A. Irvin and Patrick Carr

Fiscal Slack and Counter-Cyclical Expenditure Stabilization: A First Look at the Local Level
Justin Marlowe

Categorical Municipal Expenditures with a Focus on the Flypaper Effect
Steven C. Deller and Craig S. Maher

Local Transportation Sales Taxes: California's Experiment in Transportation Finance
Amber E. Crabbe, Rachel Hiatt, Susan D. Poliwka and Martin Wachs


June 2005 - Vol. 25 Issue 2

Original Articles

Evolutions and Limits of New Public Management—Inspired Budgeting Practices in Italian Local Governments
EugenioAnessi-Pessina and IleanaSteccolini

Toward a Theory of Performance Reporting to Achieve Public Sector Accountability: A Field Study
Gary M.Cunningham and Jean E.Harris

Viewing Spatial Consequences of Budgetary Policy Changes
Robert T.Greenbaum and AnandDesai

Have Cities Shifted to Outcome-Oriented Performance Reporting?—A Content Analysis of City Budgets
Alfred Tat-KeiHo and Anna YaNi

"Robin Hood" and Texas School District Borrowing Costs
Earl D.Benson and Barry R.Marks

Full Disclosure: Unanticipated Improvements in Property Tax Uniformity
Gary C.Cornia and Lawrence C.Walters


March 2005 - Vol. 25 Issue 1

Original Articles

Globalization and Fiscal Federalism: Does Openness Constrain Subnational Budget Imbalances?
Luiz R. de Mello, Jr.

Federal Budgeting After September 11th: A Whole New Ballgame, or Is It Déjŕ Vu All Over Again?
Philip G. Joyce

From Cash to Accrual Budgeting and Accounting in the Public Sector: The Dutch Experience
M. Peter van der Hoek

Generational Accounting and the Saving Rate Decline, 1960–2000
Erick Eschker

Road Fund Tax Compliance: An Analysis of Enhancement Strategies
Robert J. Eger III and Merl M. Hackbart

Fiscal Institutions, Credit Ratings, and Borrowing Costs
Craig L. Johnson and Kenneth A. Kriz

From the Field

Potential State Government Practices Impact of the New GASB Accounting Standard for Retiree Health Benefits
Stanley C. Wisniewski


December 2004 - Vol. 25 Issue 4

Symposium Tax and Expenditure Limitations: A Quarter Century after Proposition 13—Dedicated to the Memory of Franklin J. James
Symposium Editor: Bruce A. Wallin

Original Articles

Tax and Expenditure Limitations: Introduction and Overview
Daniel R. Mullins and Bruce A. Wallin

Tax and Spending Limits in Colorado
Franklin J. James and Allan Wallis

The Tax Revolt in Massachusetts: Revolution and Reason
Bruce A. Wallin

Fiscal Structure and the Post-Proposition 13 Fiscal Regime in California's Cities
Christopher Hoene

Vox Populi? Oregon Tax and Expenditure Limitation Initiatives
Fred Thompson and Mark T. Green

Peeling Away the Populist Rhetoric: Toward a Taxonomy of Anti-Tax Ballot Initiatives
Daniel A. Smith

Tax and Expenditure Limitations and the Fiscal Response of Local Government: Asymmetric Intra-Local Fiscal Effects
Daniel R. Mullins


September 2004 - Vol. 25 Issue 3

Original Articles

The Ups and Downs of State Budget Process Reform: Experience of Three Decades
Robert C. Burns and Robert D. Lee, Jr.

Budgetary Decision Making by Executive and Legislative Budget Analysts: The Impact of Political Cues and Analytical Information
Doug Goodman and Edward J. Clynch

Budget Stabilization Fund: Structural Features of the Enabling Legislation and Balance Levels
Yilin Hou

Grant Levels and Debt Issuance: Is There a Relationship? Is There Symmetry?
Christine R. Martell and Bridget M. Smith

The Impact of Tax Price on Spending Preferences
Mark D. Robbins, Bill Simonsen and Barry Feldman

To Marry or Not to Marry: Tax Is the Question
Julio López-Laborda and Anabel Zárate-Marco

Book Review

Book Review
David L. Baker


June 2004 - Vol. 24 Issue 2

Original Articles

State Income Tax Treatment of the Elderly
Barbara Edwards and Sally Wallace

Performance Measurement and Budget Balancing: State Government Perspective
Katherine G. Willoughby

Use of Capital Budgeting Techniques and an Analytic Approach to Capital Investment Decisions in Canadian Municipal Governments
Yee-Ching Lilian Chan

Public Pension Funds and Operating Budgets: A Tale of Three States
Jun Peng

Risk Aversion and the Pricing of Municipal Bonds
Kenneth A.Kriz

From the Field/Emerging Research

In Search of True Public Arts Support
Arthur C. Brooks


March 2004 - Vol. 24 Issue 1

Original Articles

Sales and Use Tax Simplification and Voluntary Compliance
Gary C. Cornia, David L. Sjoquist, and Lawrence C. Walters

Searching for a Role for Citizens in the Budget Process
Carol Ebdon and Aimee Franklin

Public Preferences for Program Tradeoffs: Community Values for Budget Priorities
Glenn C. Blomquist, Michael A. Newsome, and D. Brad Stone

Eliciting the Public's Budgetary Preferences: Insights from Contingent Valuation
Earl R. Brubaker

"Bricks and Mortar" Politics: How Infrastructure Decisions Defeat Incumbents
Susan A. Macmanus

From the Field/Emerging Research
The State of the Tobacco Settlement: Are Settlement Funds Being Used to Finance State Government Budget Deficits? A Research Note Craig L. Johnson

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