Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

14 of the Best Books and Articles on: Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

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1.

Inside OMB: Politics and Process in the President's Budget Office
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 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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Title Page

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

1: Omb: A Presidential Advisor For All Seasons""

2: Learning the Institutional Map: Omb Organization and Staff Roles

3: The Bureau's First Sixty Years: Ancient History or Not?

Introduction

4: Institutional Service to the President, 197-1980: The Roles of the Budget Examiners

5: Onslaught in the 1980s: Causes and Effects for Omb

Introduction

6: Omb's Budget Preparation Mandate Goes Second Tier

Introduction

7: Omb and Congress, 1973-1992: Role Reversal and Stalemate

8: Omb and the Agencies: Communicating, Managing, and Regulating the Regulators""

Introduction

9: Omb Meets the Clintonites: Transitions Within Transitions

10: Beyond the Deluge: The Clinton Omb After the 1994 Election

11: Beyond Omb 2000: One Bridge to the Twenty-First Century

Epilogue

Notes

How to Learn More About the Office of Management and Budget

Selected Bibliography

Index

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The Managerial Presidency (Chap. 8 "OMB and Neutral Competence")
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 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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Preface

Chapter 1 Can the President Manage the Government?

Part 1 Organizing The Presidency

Chapter 2 The Changing Presidential Office

Chapter 3: The Evolution of the White House Staff Samuel Kernell

Chapter 4 Memorandum [to Jfk] on Staffing The President-Elect Prepared By Richard E. Neustadt October 30, 1960

Chapter 5 Does the White House Need a Strong Chief of Staff?

Chapter 6 The President's Chief of Staff: Lessons Learned

Chapter 7: Why Entourage Politics Is Volatile

Part 2 Political Control Of Administration

Chapter 8 Omb and Neutral Competence

Chapter 9 The Politicized Presidency

Chapter 10: Mandates Or Mandarins? Control and Discretion In the Modern Administrative State

Chapter 11: Politics and Performance Strengthening the Executive Leadersbip System

Chapter 12: Political Direction and Policy Change In Three Federal Departments

Part 3 Presidential Management In A Separated System

Chapter 13: The Managerial Presidency's Changing Focus, Theodore Roosevelt to Bill Clinton

Chapter 14: White House-Initiated Management Change Implementing Federal Procurement Reform

Chapter 15 At Risk The President's Role as Chief Manager

Chapter 16: Director Or Facilitator? Presidential Policy Control of Congress

Chapter 17: Congress as Co-Manager Of the Executive Branch Louis Fisher

Chapter 18 The President and the National Agenda

Chapter 19 The Presidency in a Separated System

Contributors
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Federal Budget and Financial Management Reform
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 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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Introduction: Call For Reform

Conclusion

1 Presidential Power And the Budget

Notes

2 Coordination of Budgeting

Notes

3 Delay, Deadlock, And Deficits: Evaluating Proposals For Congressional Budget Reform

Notes

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4 Federal Budget Making: A Bipartisan Failure?

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5 Forecasting and the Federal Budget

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6 Recent Developments In Federal Accounting And Financial Management

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7 Federal Financial Management

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8 Data Processing in Federal Budgeting and Financial Management

Notes

9 Privatization and Federal Budget Reform

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Conclusion: Addressing The Problem

Index

Contributors
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The Federal Budget: Politics, Policy, Process
by Allen Schick. 308 pgs.

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Foreword

Contents

1: Conflict and Resolution in Federal Budgeting

2: The Evolution of Federal Budgeting

3: The Budget's Shifting Boundaries

4: The Political Rules and Arithmetic of Budgeting

5: The President's Budget

6: The Congressional Budget Process

8: Authorizing Legislation

9: The Appropriations Process

10: Managing Federal Expenditures

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A Historical Guide to the U.S. Government ("Management and Budget, Office of" begins on p. 370)
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. 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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Preface

Acknowledgments

Directory of Contributors

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Appendix: Basic Documents of Public Administration

Index
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Regulating the Flow of Data: OMB and the Control of Government Information, in Public Administration Review
by Arthur L. Morin. 10 pgs.
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Serving Competing Principals: The Budget Estimates of OMB and CBO in an Era of Divided Government, in Presidential Studies Quarterly
by Erik J. Engstrom, Samuel Kernell. 10 pgs.
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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
by Kelly Patricia O'Meara. 3 pgs.
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Timely, Useful, and Reliable Financial Information, in The Public Manager
by Steve Richardson. 4 pgs.
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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
by James F. Blumstein. 49 pgs.
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The 1992 Regulatory Moratorium: Did It Make a Difference?, in Public Administration Review
by Scott R. Furlong. 9 pgs.
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Managing Regulatory Reform: The Reagan Strategy and Its Impact
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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CONTENTS

Tables and Figures

ACRONYMS

PREFACE

1: Introduction

2: Presidents and the Management of Regulatory Policy

3: Reining in the Regulatory Bureaucracy

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

4: Regulatory Reform in Intergovernmental Relations

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

5: Regulatory Reform in the Environmental Protection Area

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

6: Regulatory Reform in the Nuclear Power Area

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

7: The Limits of the Management Strategy

APPENDIX

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

ABOUT THE AUTHORS
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Whose Agency Is It, Anyway? How OMB Runs EPA, in Washington Monthly
by Jim Sibbison. 4 pgs.
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O.M.B.'S Chokehold on Government, in The Nation
by Mark A. Pinsky. 3 pgs.

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