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This article introduces a series of retrospective articles on the Reagan administration. The Office of Management and Budget became a major actor in the budget debate over the last eight years. The Reagan administration has seen a change in OMB’s role from that of an advisor to the president, to an agency with a central role to play in the development of the president’s foreign and domestic policy within budgetary constraints. The article focuses on how OMB has reacted to these changes producing budget conventions and techniques unique to the 19

ISSN:0275-1100    

DOI:10.1111/1540-5850.00788

出版商:Blackwell Publishers Ltd.    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

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This article reviews federal Reagan‐era policies that affected grant‐in‐aid programs to state and local governments. We find the most important developments in federal aid policies of the Reagan years are twofold—the relative decline in the national government’s involvement in domestic affairs and the concomitant rise in the role of the states. The administration achieved these effects by devolving federal authority to states and by reducing grant spending. Reagan’s biggest cuts in federal aid outlays came in 1981; in subsequent years, total grant outlays began to rebound, increasing in nominal dollars to levels above those in the Carter years, though still below the high‐water mark reached in 1978 in real terms. Medicaid, the largest federal aid program, accounts for most of the overall growth, masking cuts in operating and capital grant programs. Reagan’s devolutionary and retrenchment policies are one of several factors we see as contributing to the rising role of states in domestic affairs, a trend we think is likely to continue in the next

ISSN:0275-1100    

DOI:10.1111/1540-5850.00789

出版商:Blackwell Publishers Ltd.    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0275-1100    

DOI:10.1111/1540-5850.00790

出版商:Blackwell Publishers Ltd.    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0275-1100    

DOI:10.1111/1540-5850.00791

出版商:Blackwell Publishers Ltd.    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

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Faced with burgeoning infrastructure needs and circumscribed capital revenues, local governments must perforce set priorities among competing capital projects submitted by their operating agencies. This process involves value choices and political resolutions in addition to technical considerations. This article finds current priority‐setting procedures in need of improvement and suggests a framework for local government assessment and selection of capital investment project

ISSN:0275-1100    

DOI:10.1111/1540-5850.00792

出版商:Blackwell Publishers Ltd.    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

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User charges, which have become an important revenue enhancement device during the 1980s, have also raised a variety of counter‐charges. This study examines three new mandatory Customs Service fees—for processing passengers, conveyances, and merchandise entering the United States and for special services at small airports—along with their differences and changes over time (in rate structure, exemptions, dedicated accounts, and disposition of funds). Despite support for the charges, opposition to some has arisen because of their cost to the private sector, violation of certain assumptions behind user fees, competing international obligations and policies, rival institutional interests and powers of Congress and the presidency, and changing fiscal condi

ISSN:0275-1100    

DOI:10.1111/1540-5850.00793

出版商:Blackwell Publishers Ltd.    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

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Offsetting collections are one of the largest and least understood types of transactions in the federal budget. This article discusses a number of the most common questions that arise with regard to offsetting collections.

ISSN:0275-1100    

DOI:10.1111/1540-5850.00794

出版商:Blackwell Publishers Ltd.    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

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Books reviewed:Richard P. Nathan, Fred C. Doolittle and Associates,Reagan and the StatesVolume III, John M. Quigley, (ed.)Perspectives on Local Public Finance and Public Policy: A Research AnnualGeorge E. Peterson, Randall R. Bovbjerg, Barbara A. Davis, Walter G. Davis, Eugene C. Durman, Theresa A. Gullo, The Changing Domestic Priorities Series, John L. Palmer and Isabel V. Sawhill, (ed.)The Reagan Block Grants: What Have We Learned?

ISSN:0275-1100    

DOI:10.1111/1540-5850.d01-1513

出版商:Blackwell Publishers Ltd.    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY