Books by Irene S. Rubin

Lays out the actors involved-interest groups, public officials, legislators, and the public-and shines a light on how these groups, who each have their own goals, are able to bargain and barter their way to a resolution.

Addresses the most important theoretical and practical problems underlying public budgeting. This anthology is organized topically rather than historically, with an effort to delineate the issues needed to understand some of the controversies in the field. It describes what public budgeting is, where it comes from, and what it is for.

Focuses on how government tried and eventually succeeded in balancing the US federal budget in 1998. The author describes the successive efforts of Congress and the administration over seventeen years to shape a process that would encourage balance, as well as the reactions of federal agencies to the pressure.

Offering case studies of financial management in numerous American cities over a period of enormous growth and change, the author explores the historical context of municipal budgeting in the United States and the political environment that conditions reform and problem solving at the local level.