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Author : Chris Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1944424741
Author : Chris Edwards
Publisher : Cato Institute
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781933995519
The federal government is running huge budget deficits, spending too much, and heading toward a financial crisis. Federal spending soared under President George W. Bush, and the costs of programs for the elderly are set to balloon in coming years. Hurricane Katrina has made the federal budget situation even more desperate. In Downsizing the Federal Government Cato Institute budget expert Chris Edwards provides policymakers with solutions to the growing federal budget mess. Edwards identifies more than 100 federal programs that should be terminated, transferred to the states, or privatized in order to balance the budget and save hundreds of billions of dollars. Edwards proposes a balanced reform package of cuts to entitlements, domestic programs, and excess defense spending. He argues that these cuts would not only eliminate the deficit, but also strengthen the economy, enlarge personal freedom, and leave a positive fiscal legacy for the next generation. Downsizing the Federal Government discusses the systematic causes of wasteful spending, and it overflows with examples of federal programs that are obsolete and mismanaged. The book examines the budget process and shows how policymakers act contrary to the interests of average Americans by favoring special interests.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : SRLF:AA0007222045
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1198 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119541535
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1260 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : SRLF:AA0007224827
Author : David M Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315503288
The main focus of downsizing has shifted from the private to the public sector. The cutbacks began in the Department of Defense. Now the goal is a federal civilian workforce reduction of 12 percent by the year 2000. This pioneering study looks at the management of workforce reductions in the public sector both in theory and in practice. Three case studies -- of the Defense Logistics Agency, the Bureau of Reclamation, and the Food and Drug Administration -- illustrate the organizational, managerial, and human dimensions of attempting to improve performance with reduced resources. The author draws on extensive interviews with senior executives and middle managers in the three agencies; at the General Accounting Office, the Office of Personnel Management, and the National Performance Review; the Senior Executives Association and the Federal Managers Association; and scholars and researchers. In a larger sense, this work pushes the boundaries of knowledge concerning organizational change and makes a significant contribution to organization theory. It offers important new insights not only for public sector managers but for organization theorists and management specialists whose work on downsizing has been presumed but not shown to be applicable to the public sector.
Author : Walter Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015048512571
Author : Paul Krugman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780393088878
A New York Times best-selling call to arms from Nobel Prize–winning economist Paul Krugman. The Great Recession is more than four years old—and counting. Yet, as Paul Krugman points out in this powerful volley, "Nations rich in resources, talent, and knowledge—all the ingredients for prosperity and a decent standard of living for all—remain in a state of intense pain." How bad have things gotten? How did we get stuck in what now can only be called a depression? And above all, how do we free ourselves? Krugman pursues these questions with his characteristic lucidity and insight. He has a powerful message for anyone who has suffered over these past four years—a quick, strong recovery is just one step away, if our leaders can find the "intellectual clarity and political will" to end this depression now.
Author : Richard K. Vedder,Lowell Eugene Gallaway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Economic development
ISBN : OSU:32435069311363
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000023495340
Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1132 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : LOC:00034029362
Author : Cato Institute,David Boaz
Publisher : Cato Institute
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781933995915
Offers policy recommendations from Cato Institute experts on every major policy issue. Providing both in-depth analysis and concrete recommendations, the Handbook is an invaluable resource for policymakers and anyone else interested in securing liberty through limited government.
Author : Paul C. Light
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001-09-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0815723571
According to Paul C. Light's controversial new book, The New Public Service, this January's 4.8 percent federal pay increase will do little to compensate for what potential employees think is currently missing from federal careers. Talented Americans are not saying "show me the money" but "show me the job." And federal jobs just do not show well. All job offers being equal, Light argues that the pay increase would matter. But all offers are not equal. Light's research on what graduates of the top public policy and administration graduate programs want indicates that the federal government is usually so far behind its private and nonprofit competitors that pay never comes into play. Light argues that the federal government is losing the talent war on three fronts. First, its hiring system for recruiting talent, top to bottom, underwhelms at almost every task it undertakes. Second, its annual performance appraisal system is so inflated that federal employees are not only all above average, they are well on their way to outstanding. Third and most importantly, the federal government is so clogged with needless layers and convoluted career paths that it cannot deliver the kind of challenging work that talented Americans expect. None of these problems would matter, Light argues, if the government-centered public service was still looking for work. Unfortunately, as Light's book demonstrates, federal careers were designed for a workforce that has not punched since the 1960s, and certainly not for one that grew up in an era of corporate downsizing and mergers. The government-centered public service is mostly a thing of the past, replaced by a multisectored public service in which employees switch jobs and sectors with ease. Light concludes his book by offering the federal government a simple choice: It can either ignore the new public service and troll further and further down the class lists for new recruits, while hoping that a tiny pay in
Author : National Research Council,National Academy of Engineering,National Academy of Sciences,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Institute of Medicine,Committee on Criteria for Federal Support of Research and Development
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1995-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780309176002
The United States faces a new challengeâ€"maintaining the vitality of its system for supporting science and technology despite fiscal stringency during the next several years. To address this change, the Senate Appropriations Committee requested a report from the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering and the Institute of Medicine to address "the criteria that should be used in judging the appropriate allocation of funds to research and development activities; to examine the appropriate balance among different types of institutions that conduct such research; and to look at the means of assuring continued objectivity in the allocation process." In this eagerly-awaited book, a committee of experts selected by the National Academies and the Institute responds with 13 recommendations that propose a new budgeting process and formulates a series of questions to address during that process. The committee also makes corollary recommendations about merit review, government oversight, linking research and development to government missions, the synergy between research and education, and other topics. The recommendations are aimed at rooting out obsolete and inadequate activities to free resources from good programs for even better ones, in the belief that "science and technology will be at least as important in the future as they have been in the past in dealing with problems that confront the nation." The authoring committee of this book was chaired by Frank Press, former President of the National Academy of Sciences (1981-1993) and Presidential Science and Technology Advisor (1977-1981).
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. Subcommittee on Civil Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PURD:32754067824163
