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Books
Congressional
budget process and federal budget policy
Executive
budget: federal government
Executive
budget: Maryland Maryland
budget policy and state budget processes
Economic
development policy and budgeting
Health
budgeting Earmarks
Miscellaneous
Handbook of Government Budgeting
CSPAN
Washington Journal on the history and impacts of government
shutdowns, 9/30/23.
The
Problem and the Process Are Both Problems: Why the Joint Select
committee on Budget and Appropriations Process Reform Failed,
working paper, with Philip G. Joyce.
Intro, as editor to virtual
issue on Congressional Budget Process Reform, Public
Budgeting and Finance, August 2018
Is the U.S. Congress An Insurmountable Obstacle to Any "Far-Sighted Conception of Budgeting"?, proof of article in Public Budgeting and Finance, which holds the copyright, 37: Winter 2017, 5-24.
Comments at Brookings Institution event (webcast) : "The federal budget process: Turning reform into political reality," October 18, 2016
Comments
on Enzi budget process reform proposal, especially budget concepts
commission, at event hosted by The Committee for a Responsible
Federal Budget, September 19, 2016. CSPAN
video.
Brookings
brief on political feasibility of budget process reform,
April 18, 2016
The
Political Feasibility of Doing What Is Almost Impossible:
Reforming the Federal Budget Process, prepared with support
from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, presented at the
annual conference of the American Political Science Association,
September 2015. Published as a working paper by George Mason
University for the National Budgeting Roundtable.
The
Implosion of the Federal Budget Process: Triggers, Commissions,
Cliffs, Sequesters, Debt Ceilings, and Shutdown, Public
Budgeting and Finance, 34:4, Winter 2014, 1-23, which holds
the copyright.
Op-Ed on Partnership to Build America Act, MarylandReporter.com, July 24, 2014
LSE
blog entry on the Ryan-Murray budget agreement, December 13,
2013
LSE
blog entry on the shutdown and reform of the budget process,
October 2, 2013 Follow-up
commentary after end of shutdown
Selected media commentary/citations on 2013 shutdown: Wonkblog,
NPR,
WaPo,
NYT,
Le
Monde, The
Hill, NBC,
WSJ, Politifact,
Politifact,
and Politifact.
Strengthening
the Federal Budget Process, with Paul Posner, Steve Redburn,
and Phil Joyce, National Academy of Public Administration and
American Society for Public Administration, July 12,
2012.
Miscellaneous media commentary on Politifact re Gingrich,
Obama,
Lew;
NPR on CRs
Correcting Michelle Bachmann
in PolitiFact.com,
March 8, 2011
Media commentary on possible shutdown in Slate, NPR
Several Modest Proposals, comments prepared for Thursday's Child panel on "Children and Federal-State Budget Tradeoffs," Urban Institute, March 17, 2011. Video
Prospects
for a Sustainable Budgetary Policy in the United States,
International Conference on Financial Crisis and Macroeconomic
Control, sponsored by the School of Public Finance and Taxation,
Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing, China,
October 17, 2009.
Presentation on Capitol Hill: Can
the Budget Process Be Fixed?, sponsored by the Mercatus
Center, 1/22/09.
Slides
for "The 'Missing Middle' of the Federal Budget Process:
Priority-Setting," to Association for Budgeting and Financial
Management, September 24, 2009, Washington, D.C
Presentation
to Peterson-Pew Budget Reform Commission on structural reform of
the federal budget process, April 1, 2009 (no foolin'!)
Presentation
to Peterson-Pew Budget Reform Commission on their agenda, February
20. 2009
The
'Ball
of
Confusion'
in
Federal
Budgeting:
A
Shadow
Agenda
for
Deliberative
Reform
of
the
Budget
Process, Public
Administration Review, 69:2, March 2009, pp.
211-223. Copyright American Society for Public
Administration, published by Blackwell Publishing. Drawn
from the plenary
presentation at the annual conference of the Association for
Budgeting and Financial Management, Chicago, IL, October 24, 2008.
Books review: The Return of Budget Deficits in the United State”, Public Administration Review, 2006, 66: 2, March, pp. 294-7. Copyright American Society for Public Administration, published by Blackwell Publishing.
Congressional
Budgeting at Age 30: Is It Worth Saving?, with Philip G.
Joyce. Public Budgeting
and Finance, 2005, Silver Anniversary Issue, pp.
68-82. Copyright Public Financial Publications, Inc.,
published by Blackwell Publishing.
Remarks
and slides
for "It's Time for a Second Commission on Budget Concepts,"
presented at the Third Annual Congressional Budget Office
Director's Conference, Russell Senate Caucus Room, September 14,
2004
Testimony before the House Rules
Committee on biennial
budgeting, March 16, 2000.
Comments at the Opening Plenary of the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management, October 7, 1999, Washington, D.C., on the topic of Federal Budget Structure and Concepts for a New Millenium: Revolt, Reform, or Renewal?
Regulatory Budgeting: A Bad Idea Whose Time Has Come? Policy Sciences, 31: December 1998, pp. 371-384.Late
Appropriations and Government Shutdowns: Frequency, Causes,
Consequences, and Remedies, Public Budgeting and Finance, Fall 1997.
Is
There a Key to the Normative Budgeting Lock? Policy
Sciences, 29: 1996, pp. 171-188.
The Budget
Resolution Should Be Law, Public Budgeting and Finance,10:
Fall 1990
Biennial
Budgeting by the U.S. Congress, Public Budgeting and
Finance, 8: Summer 1988
Supplemental
Appropriations in the 1980s. CBO, February 1990.
The
Budgetary Status of the Federal Reserve System, CBO,
February 1985.
Trump’s Destructively Aberrant Approach To Federal Budgeting, book chapter. Book link
Presentation and discussion for American Enterprise Institute, The
Budget and Accounting Act at 100: Looking back and forward,
June 25, 2021.
Point-Counterpoint discussion with Steve Redburn on the Present and Future of Congressional vs. Executive Budgeting, for the AABPA/ABFM/NAPA virtual conference on the centennial of the Budget and Accounting Act, June 21, 2021.
Op-ed, with Doug Criscitello and Steve Redburn, The
Budget Process Is 100 Years Old Today and Its Age Is Showing,
Government Executive, June 10, 2021.
Wisconsin Public Radio Central Time discussion
of Trump FY21 budget, 2/11/2020.
Interviews and comments on the 2018-2019 Trump shutdown: New
York Times, December 23; The
Takeaway, January 8; Ken Rudin's Political
Junkie, ( 25:03-40:39) January 10; Wisconsin
Public Radio, January 11; Vox,
January 9; Time,
January 12; Marketplace's Make
Me Smart. January 29.
Why
Trump's "skinny budget" is already dead, The
Conversation, March 8, 2017
Obama may be a lame duck, but his final budget isn’t, The Conversation, February 19, 2016
The
Executive
Budget in the Federal Government: The First Century and Beyond,
with Irene S. Rubin, Public
Administration Review, 71:3, May/June 2011, 334-344,
copyright 2011 American Society for Public Administration.
See also the responses that follow in this issue from Matt Andrews
and Joachim Wehner.
Budgeting during
the Clinton Presidency, coauthored with Philip G. Joyce, Public
Budgeting and Finance,
21: Spring 2001, pp. 1-21. Posted to this page with the permission
of Blackwell Publishers
The
New Equation at OMB: M + B = RMO, with Bernard H. Martin and
Joseph S. Wholey, Public Budgeting and Finance, Winter
1995
Federal Budgeting and Finance in 1991: The Future is Now, Public Budgeting and Finance, 12: Summer 1992
The
President's 1992 Budget: Almost Quiet on the Budgetary Front,"
Public Budgeting and Finance, 11: Summer 1991
For Question 1 on November ballot, Maryland Matters, September 14, 2020, with Warren Deschenaux. Referendum result
Oped
on mandate relief and legislative budget powers,
MarylandReporter, March 20, 2016, and associated
testimony
Increasing
Budgetary Democracy and Flexibility, part of an exchange on
the effects of the budget powers set out in the Maryland
Constitution, from Maryland Policy Reports, Maryland Budget and
Tax Policy Institute, June 2008.
Testimony
on HB 1247, sponsor Delegate Branch (crossfile SB 370, sponsor
Senator Hogan), Constitutional Amendment on Additions to the
Operating Budget, House Appropriations Committee, Maryland General
Assembly, March 9, 2004
Discussion of upcoming MGA session with Kevin Kinally of MACO on Sunil Dasgupta's podcast "I Hate Politics" (which he doesn't), December 30, 2022
Discussion
of Maryland's budget surplus with Majority Leader Delegate
Eric Luedtke on Sunil's podcast, December 31, 2021, starting
around minute 15.
Maryland's Budget Should Be More Comprehensive and Understandable, Maryland Matters, with Warren Deschenaux, November 19, 2020.
Testimony on HB 1628, Sales and Use Tax - Rate Reduction and Services, Committee on Ways and Means, Maryland House of Delegates, March 2, 2020
Don’t
misinterpret Mercatus low ranking of Maryland’s fiscal
health, commentary at MarylandReporter, August 18, 2015
Commentary
on the so-called "easy fix" for Maryland's budget, MarylandReporter.com,
December 15, 2014
Op-ed
in Baltimore Sun on educating the public about the state's budget,
September 8, 2009
Testimony on two Maryland budget process bills, February 2008
Addressing Maryland’s Structural Deficit
through Better Performance Budgeting and Priority-Setting,
UMBC Policy Brief 5, June 2007.
Commentary (invited), on Fred Thompson and Bruce L. Gates, “Betting on the Future with a Cloudy Crystal Ball? Revenue Forecasting, Financial Theory, and Budgets--An Expanded Treatment,” Public Administration Review, Theory to Practice, September/October 2007, pp. 74-80.
How
Can Maryland's Budget Process Be Improved?, coauthored with
Thomas S. Pilkerton, September 2003, Maryland Institute for Policy
Analysis and Research. Accompanying spreadsheet of Oregon-Style
Measures for Maryland.
Testimony on SB 381, sponsor Senator Jones, Managing for Results and the budget prioritization process in Maryland, March 23, 2004
The Port Covington TIF: Did Baltimore "Protect This House?", in Craig L. Johnson and Kenneth A. Kriz, eds., 2019. Tax Increment Financing and Economic Development: Uses, Structures and Impact, second edition. Albany: State University of New York Press, 83-99.
Why we are thankful that Maryland didn’t ‘win’ Amazon HQ2, op-ed co-authored with Eric Stokan, MarylandReporter.com, November 19, 2018.
Maryland
Should Not “One-Click Order” Huge Subsidies for Amazon,
op-ed co-authored with Eric Stokan, MarylandReporter.com, March 6,
2018
How Democrats can help Trump make the ACA’s replacement ‘terrific,’ The Conversation, February 9, 2017
Budgeting and Health Care Policy (1970s-Present), a book chapter in U.S. Health Care and Health Care Policy, Thomas R. Oliver, editor, 2014, pp. 111-125. Thousand Oaks, California: CQ Press, which holds the copyright.
Paper written for the American Association for the Advancement of
Science and the Mary Lasker Trust: Federal
Financing for Medical Research Through Trust Funds and
Entitlements", February 15, 1999.
The Remarkable Case of Disappearing Earmarks in the United States: The Limits of Transparency Reforms, presented at the 2012 conference of the International Public Management Network: Innovations in Public Management for Combating Corruption, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 28, 2012. Winner of Frieder Naschold prize. A much earlier version was presented at the annual conference of the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management, 2007.
Op-ed
on using a deal on earmarks to encourage timely passage of
appropriations bills, Roll Call, Tuesday March 24, 2009, p. A4.
Comments
on receipt of the Aaron Wildavsky Award for lifetime scholarly
achievement from the Association for Budgeting and Financial
Management, Denver, October 5, 2018.
Recommendations on Baltimore County budget process and document, December 29, 2018
Moderator of ASPA Book Talk with Andrew Kleine on his book City on the Line, October 11, 2018
Comments
to redistricting commission, October 13, 2015
Comments
for American Political Science Association panel on "Hard Times
and Ph.D.s: The Political Science Job Market and Non-Academic
Careers," Washington, D.C., September 2, 2010.
Governance Ideas for and from the "Knowledge Banks" book review essay in Public Administration Review, 69: January 2009, pp. 167-171.
Revised version of 2009 presentation to Eastern States
Legislative Fiscal Officers: What Can
Academics Teach Practitioners About Budgeting?
"European Budget Institutions", book
review essay in Public
Administration Review, 2006, 66:6, November, 935-938.
Legislative
Budgeting in Mexico: Aspirations and Choices for the
Conference on Reform of the State: Budgeting and Public Spending
in Mexico, January 27, 2000, sponsored by Centro de Investigatión
y Docencia Económicas and Camara de Diputados, Government of
Mexico
If
Policy Analysts Are Depressed, What Should They Do About It?,
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 15: Summer 1996