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Retired sociologist Rubin has collected 35 papers published largely over the last quarter century from journals affiliated with the American Society for Public Administration that she feels address the most important theoretical and practical problems underlying public budgeting. Opening papers provide an introduction to the field and its history, and the collection then moves through the relationship between budget process and outcomes, constraints on budgeting, the legal context in which public budgeting operates, adaptations to constraints (such as contracting out), and the ethics and norms underlying budgeting in a democracy. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
