The Deficit and the Public Interest: The Search for Responsible Budgeting in the 1980s

by Aaron Wildavsky and Joseph White

Book Overview

Political time is counted, not in years, but in issues--the depression defined the political era of the 1930s just as the cold war did the 1950s and civil rights the 1960s. Today the federal budget looms as the dominant issue by which all others are considered and has become a concern which catalyzes debate again and again in our nation's capital. In this definitive new work, Joseph White and Aaron Wildavsky describe and analyze the struggles over...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520065336
• ISBN13: 9780520065338
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 695 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.