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Inside OMB: Politics and Process in the President's Budget Office » Read Now
by Shelley Lynne Tomkin. 370 pgs.

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The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) occupies a critical juncture in relations between the office of the President, the Executive Branch, and Congress. Through its budgetary, managerial, and regulatory review mandates, it can function as an "enforcer" with a significant impact on public policy...
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The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) occupies a critical juncture in relations between the office of the President, the Executive Branch, and Congress. Through its budgetary, managerial, and regulatory review mandates, it can function as an "enforcer" with a significant impact on public policy and its implementation_ Despite this, OMB has maintained a low profile in recent years, and has eluded focused attention. Remarkably, this is the fast study of OMB to appear in nearly two decades-a time of momentous change both in presidential-congressional relations and in U.S. budgetary politics, including the short-lived line-item veto. The book will be extremely useful not just to students of public policy but to anyone trying to work effectively with federal, state, or local budget offices.
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The Managerial Presidency (Chap. 8 "OMB and Neutral Competence") » Read Now
by James P. Pfiffner. 352 pgs.

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As the scope and size of the U.S. government has expanded, the importance of good management to the success of a presidency has also increased. Although good management cannot guarantee political or policy success, poor management can certainly undermine good policy and political efforts.
In this...
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As the scope and size of the U.S. government has expanded, the importance of good management to the success of a presidency has also increased. Although good management cannot guarantee political or policy success, poor management can certainly undermine good policy and political efforts.
In this second edition of The Managerial Presidency James P. Pfiffner brings together both classic analyses and more recent treatments of managerial issues that affect the presidency. Some of the foremost presidency scholars have contributed to this volume, including Richard Neustadt, Charles O. Jones, Hugh Heclo, George Edwards, and Louis Fisher. This second edition includes more recent scholarship by Roger Porter, Steven Kelman, Peri Arnold, and Ronald Moe.
The focus of this collection is the extent to which presidents can exercise control over the executive branch bureaucracies and whether it is wise for them to exert that control. Part one deals with the question of how to organize the White House staff.If this organizational problem is not resolved, solving the broader problems of organization and policy will be that much more difficult. Part two addresses the question of how much control presidents should exert over the departments and agencies of the executive branch and how the White House staff and other political appointees relate to career civil servants. The final section examines presidential managerial reform efforts and the congressional role in managing the government.
Although the contributors to this collection do not all agree on how the presidency should be managed, there is surprising consensus on which questions ought to be asked. The analyses addressing those questionswill be of interest to students and scholars of the modern presidency as well as those interested in executive leadership and public administration.
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Federal Budget and Financial Management Reform » Read Now
by Thomas D. Lynch. 222 pgs.

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A collection of original essays by specialists in the field, this book examines some of the most crucial budgetary and financial management problems that face the United States government and makes concrete recommendations on how current processes can be improved. Topics include proposed revamping...
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A collection of original essays by specialists in the field, this book examines some of the most crucial budgetary and financial management problems that face the United States government and makes concrete recommendations on how current processes can be improved. Topics include proposed revamping of a budget-making process that now leads to deadlock and ultimately to higher deficits, and the need for more accurate deficit forecasting, centralized financial management, improved information technology, and responsible bipartisan action at the highest level.
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The Federal Budget: Politics, Policy, Process » Read Now
by Allen Schick. 308 pgs.

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...Financial Officers Act of 1990 259...Financial Management 263 ...Defense Budget Authority...4-1 OMB and CBO Deficit...renamed the Office of Management and Budget in...
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A Historical Guide to the U.S. Government ("Management and Budget, Office of" begins on p. 370) » Read Now
by George Thomas Kurian. 768 pgs.

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Beginning with George Washington's presidential staff of three, the executive branch of the U.S. federal government has undergone a tremendous transformation. Today it is the largest institution of its kind in the world, employing over 3.1 million people, with an annual budget of over $1.5 trillion...
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Beginning with George Washington's presidential staff of three, the executive branch of the U.S. federal government has undergone a tremendous transformation. Today it is the largest institution of its kind in the world, employing over 3.1 million people, with an annual budget of over $1.5 trillion. A Historical Guide to the U.S. Government chronicles its growth from its modest beginnings to its present state. Focusing on the federal executive branch and its constituent departments, agencies, commissions, and committees, the guide offers 180 historical accounts for each of these organizational entities. It addresses Congress and the Judiciary where they interact with the executive branch--for example, reviewing congressional oversight functions, examining the control wielded by the Supreme Court on government structure, and profiling the agencies under the administrative control of Congress. It examines the social, cultural, and intellectual movements that have influenced the way America is governed, and looks closely at American bureaucracy--what it is, how it is controlled, and how new technologies have influenced it.
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Regulating the Flow of Data: OMB and the Control of Government Information, in Public Administration Review » Read Now
by Arthur L. Morin. 10 pgs.

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...role that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the Reagan...two earlier (Office of Management and Budget, 1978, p. 20). OMB "assumed the...regulatory changes" (...
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Serving Competing Principals: The Budget Estimates of OMB and CBO in an Era of Divided Government, in Presidential Studies Quarterly » Read Now
by Erik J. Engstrom, Samuel Kernell. 10 pgs.

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...the two budget agencies: the presidents Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO...of Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and Office of...
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Agency Evaluations Go Code Red: A New, Color-Coded Management Scorecard Has Been Set Up by the Office of Management and Budget to Grade How Well the Federal Government Uses Taxpayer Funds, in Insight on the News » Read Now
by Kelly Patricia O'Meara. 3 pgs.

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...efforts is dependent, in part, on standardized financial management across the government. Toward this end, OMB the Office of Management and Budget established two sets of...
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Timely, Useful, and Reliable Financial Information, in The Public Manager » Read Now
by Steve Richardson. 4 pgs.

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...represented the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the General...Chief Financial Officers (CEO) Act would...that is what OMB is doing--setting...made in the use of...
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Regulatory Review by the Executive Office of the President: An Overview and Policy Analysis of Current Issues, in Duke Law Journal » Read Now
by James F. Blumstein. 49 pgs.

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...President (EOP)--via the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and its Office of Information...Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, to the...
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The 1992 Regulatory Moratorium: Did It Make a Difference?, in Public Administration Review » Read Now
by Scott R. Furlong. 9 pgs.

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...consists of the White House, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and other executive offices...was placed in the newly created Office of Information and Regulatory...
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Managing Regulatory Reform: The Reagan Strategy and Its Impact » Read Now
by Marshall R. Goodman. 240 pgs.

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Preface Introduction Presidents and the Management of Regulatory Policy Reining in the Regulatory Bureaucracy Regulatory Reform in Intergovernmental Relations Regulatory Reform in the Environmental Protection Area Regulatory Reform in the Nuclear Power Area Appendix Bibliography Index
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Whose Agency Is It, Anyway? How OMB Runs EPA, in Washington Monthly » Read Now
by Jim Sibbison. 4 pgs.

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...the White House Office of Management and Budget to clear every...such situations, OMB officials have...records of these OMB-business contacts...secret, outside of the law...
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O.M.B.'S Chokehold on Government, in The Nation » Read Now
by Mark A. Pinsky. 3 pgs.

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...itself, the Office of Management and Budget provided...Director of OMB Watch, a...who ran the Office of Information...warned, "For OMB, without...contends that OMB Watchs...