Offering case studies of financial management in numerous American cities over a period of enormous growth and change, Irene Rubin explores the historical context of municipal budgeting in the United States and the political environment that conditions reform and problem solving at the local level.

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1. Municipal Budgeting in Context
Who Should Read This Book?
Organization of the Book

2. Tax Limits, Protests, and Revolts: The Erosion of Consent
Houston, Texas
San Francisco, California
The State of Ohio
The Great Depression and the Chicago Tax Strike
Proposition 13 and California

3. Evolution of Municipal Budgeting: An Overview
Budget Beginnings: After the Civil War
The Progressive Era: 1895-1915
The Post-Progressive Era: 1915-45
Post-World War II Municipal Budgeting

4. New York City and the Board of Estimate and Apportionment: Making Spending Difficult
Baltimore: A Board of Estimate for Budget Balance and Growth
The New York Bureau of Municipal Research: More Democracy and More Efficiency
Boston: The Evolution of the Executive Budget
Houston: The Commission Form of Government Combined with the Strong Mayor and Executive Budget
Berkeley, California: The Transition from Commission Government to Council-Manager Government
Rochester, New York: From Board of Estimate to City Manager

5. Boards of Estimate and Council-Manager Cities: Current Cases
St. Louis, Missouri
Phoenix, Arizona
Dayton, Ohio

6. Strong-Mayor Cities and Budgeting: Current Cases
Rochester, New York
Tampa, Florida
Boston, Massachusetts

7. The States and Locat Budgeting: The Formative Years
The Importance of State Control and Supervision
Periods of Major Change

8. The States and Local Budgeting: The Modern Period
Oklahoma, Indiana, and Ohio
North Carolina
Other States

9. Conclusion

References
Index

Irene Rubin is Professor Emerita of Public Administration at Northern Illinois University. Her teaching, research, and writing have focused on public budgeting and qualitative research design and methods. Within public budgeting, she has concentrated on the politics and administration of governments in financial trouble and on techniques and implications of contracting out, especially for public enterprises such as water and wastewater treatment. Recent research has included work on the relationship between executive budgeting and fiscal health and on long term budgeting for entitlements. Her books on budgeting include Balancing the Federal Budget: Trimming the Herds or Eating the Seed Corn and Class, Tax, and Power: Municipal Budgeting in the United States. A former editor of Public Budgeting and Finance and Public Administration Review, she has also done editing projects for GFOA and the American Water Works Association. Her B.A. is from Barnard College, her M.A. is from Harvard, and her PhD is from the University of Chicago. As an activist, in recent years she has been advocating for the pension system in her state, and as a practitioner, she sat on the board of the budget review committee for a small city for several years, taking budgets apart and examining them line by line. The awards she is most proud of include the Aaron Wildavsky award for lifetime achievements in scholarship in public budgeting and a Fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC.