1st Edition

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

By Shelley Lynne Tomkin Copyright 1998
    352 Pages
    by Routledge

    352 Pages
    by Routledge

    Through its budgetary, managerial and regulatory review mandates, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the US can function as an "enforcer" with a significant impact on public policy and its implementation. This is a study of the OMB and its significant role within the American government.

    OMB: A Presidential Advisor “For All Seasons”; Learning the Institutional Map: OMB Organization and Staff Roles; The Bureau's First Sixty Years: Ancient History or Not?; Institutional Service to the President, 1976–1980: The Roles of the Budget Examiners; Onslaught in the 1980s: Causes and Effects for OMB; OMB's Budget Preparation Mandate Goes Second Tier; OMB and Congress, 1973–1992: Role Reversal and Stalemate; OMB and the Agencies: Communicating, Managing, and “Regulating the Regulators”; OMB Meets the Clintonites: Transitions Within Transitions; Beyond the Deluge: The Clinton OMB after the 1994 Election; Beyond OMB 2000: One Bridge to the Twenty-First Century; Epilogue

    Biography

    Shelley Lynne Tomkin