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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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