The Inside Story Of Omb

Author : Rob Fairweather
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9798990294301

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The Inside Story of OMB by Rob Fairweather Pdf

The Inside Story of OMB provides an insider's perspective of the multiple functions performed by Office of Management and Budget (OMB) staff in advancing the agenda of the President. Located within the Executive Office of the President (EXOP), OMB is a powerful but poorly understood agency. Based on experiences from the author's 42-year career, the book shows how OMB staff learn the job and acclimate to the culture as well as explains the challenges and pressures faced by staff in executing OMB's many roles. The book discusses how OMB wields power in carrying out its role in five key governmental functions: 1) budget; 2) legislation; 3) regulations; 4) management; and 5) executive orders. OMB is not only a significant policy player on all these functions, but also runs the process for coordinating these functions government-wide. Due to these procedural responsibilities, OMB also serves as the President's enforcer in making sure that agency actions are coordinated and that the Federal Government speaks with one voice. As the budget is OMB's most visible and important function, the book necessarily starts by explaining in lay terms the key budget concepts, demystifying the budget process, and explaining OMB's organizational structure. The book shows how OMB carries out its key functions on several important policy issues and includes chapters on cross-cutting topics including regulatory policy, management issues, government shutdowns, and presidential transitions. Finally, the book discusses the perks and downsides of working at OMB and ends with a portrayal of the author's experiences as Acting OMB Director at the beginning of the Biden Administration.

Author : Shelley Lynne Tomkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315482958

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Inside OMB: by Shelley Lynne Tomkin Pdf

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.

Author : Roger Z. George,Harvey Rishikof
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : 9781626164406

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The National Security Enterprise by Roger Z. George,Harvey Rishikof Pdf

This second edition of The National Security Enterprise provides practitioners' insights into the operation, missions, and organizational cultures of the principal national security agencies and other significant institutions that shape the US national security decision-making process. Unlike some textbooks on American foreign policy, this book provides analysis from insiders who have worked at the National Security Council, the State Department, Department of Defense, the intelligence community, and the other critical entities included in the book. The book explains how organizational missions and cultures create the labyrinth in which a coherent national security policy must be fashioned. Understanding and appreciating these organizations and their cultures is essential for formulating and implementing coherent policies. This second edition includes four new chapters (Congress, DHS, Treasury, and USAID) and updates to the text throughout. It covers the many changes instituted by the Obama administration, implications of the government campaign to prosecute leaks, and lessons learned from more than a decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Author : Donald F. Kettl
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 871 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781506357102

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Politics of the Administrative Process by Donald F. Kettl Pdf

Politics of the Administrative Process shows how efficient public administration requires a delicate balance—the bureaucracy must be powerful enough to be effective, but also accountable to elected officials and citizens. Author Don Kettl gives students a realistic, relevant, and well-researched view of the field in this reader–friendly best seller. With its engaging vignettes, rich examples and a unique focus on policymaking and politics, the Seventh Edition continues its strong emphasis on politics, accountability, and performance. This new edition has been thoroughly updated with new scholarship, data, events, and case studies, giving students multiple opportunities to apply ideas and analysis as they read.

Author : Shelley Lynne Tomkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Budget
ISBN : 1315482975

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Inside OMB by Shelley Lynne Tomkin Pdf

Author : Stuart Shapiro
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031220791

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Trump and the Bureaucrats by Stuart Shapiro Pdf

This volume discusses the long term impacts of the Trump presidency on the federal bureaucracy. Drawing on the longstanding academic literature on neutral competence and interviews with the bureaucrats themselves, this book adds insight to the academic question of the role of bureaucrats in a democratic system after a four-year period in which their role has been questioned and threatened as never before. Focusing on the elite agencies of the Office of Management and Budget, the Congressional Budget Office, the Government Accountability Office, as well as the Economic Research Service at the Department of Agriculture, the chapters evaluate individual experiences of members of each agency during the Trump presidency through the lens of the growing tension between politics and administration. Enlightening the role that bureaucrats play in American democracy in an era when polarization is on the rise and disputes over the role of the civil service are growing, this volume will be of interest to scholars and students in public policy, political science, and public administration as well as policymakers and members of the US federal government workforce.

Author : Gordon Adams,Cindy Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135172916

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Buying National Security by Gordon Adams,Cindy Williams Pdf

The tools of American statecraft—defense, diplomacy, foreign and security assistance, homeland security and intelligence—are rarely examined together. Adams and Williams fill this gap by examining how these tools work, how they are planned for, and how they are budgeted. Seeing policy through the lens of the budget can help decision makers and ordinary citizens discern the genuine priorities of national leaders from the oftentimes illusory ones portrayed in rhetoric. Simply put, policies and strategies cannot be carried out without a corresponding allocation of resources. Buying National Security weaves a tapestry around the institutions, organizations, tools, and processes that support planning and resource allocation across the breadth of the American national security enterprise. The authors analyze the planning and resource integration activities across agencies of the Executive branch as well as examine the structure and processes the Congress uses to carry out its national security oversight and budgetary responsibilities. Finally, they review the adequacy of the current structures and process and evaluate proposals for ways both might be reformed to fit the demands of the 21st century security environment.

Author : Eugene Hickok
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781442205260

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Schoolhouse of Cards by Eugene Hickok Pdf

As the Obama Administration wrestles with the impending reauthorization of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and the continuing need for education reform, Eugene Hickok provides an insider's account of this historic legislation. A former key player in the Department of Education during the Bush administration, Hickok describes how Bush's education agenda took shape during the campaign and his first year in office, how it achieved bipartisan support in Congress, and how it was implemented. Hickok believes that NCLB accomplished a few things but not enough and had flaws. In addition, he reveals that the tensions among individuals in the White House, on Capitol Hill, and within the Department of Education undermined the law's implementation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1520 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Books
ISBN : UVA:X004667564

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Book Review Index by Anonim Pdf

Vols. 8-10 of the 1965-1984 master cumulation constitute a title index.

Author : Nicholas Hillman,Gary Orfield
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781682537176

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Civil Rights and Federal Higher Education by Nicholas Hillman,Gary Orfield Pdf

Civil Rights and Federal Higher Education offers a renewed vision for higher education policy making, presenting an incisive analysis of the connections between educational politics and educational inequality. With a view toward the future, the editors assert that the thoughtful application of evidence-based solutions to complex policy problems can help establish a more just and equitable system of higher education. Edited by Nicholas Hillman and Gary Orfield, the volume focuses on federal policy debates that have significant racial and socioeconomic implications, linking civil rights reforms to contemporary higher education policy issues. Through a mix of history and current events, the chapters highlight how policy has strayed from the Higher Education Act’s intended trajectory of promoting and protecting civil rights. This drift, the editors show, has created far-reaching consequences for students of color, low-income students, and incarcerated students, in addition to the colleges that serve them. Deftly identifying the social justice dimensions of today’s federal policies, the editors reveal how certain political influences have preserved the interests of powerful and historically advantaged stakeholders—often at the expense of those who are less powerful and most disadvantaged. With great insight, the book’s contributors explore higher education issues such as enrollment at Minority Serving Institutions, for-profit college outcomes, and legal and academic perspectives on affirmative action. Perhaps more importantly, Civil Rights and Federal Higher Education provides guidance on what can be done to course correct. The book offers short- and long-term policy prescriptions and policy alternatives to help legislative staffers, policy analysts, and researchers plot a way forward.

Author : Stephen Sestanovich
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307388308

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Maximalist by Stephen Sestanovich Pdf

American foreign policy since World War II has long been seen primarily as a story of strong and successful alliances, domestic consensus, and continuity from one adminstration to the next. Why then have so many presidents left office condemned for their foreign policy record? In his fresh and compelling history of America's rise to dominance, Stephen Sestanovich makes clear that U.S. diplomacy has always stirred controversy, both at home and abroad. He shows how successive adminstrations have struggled to find new solutions, alternating between bold "maximalist" strategies and retrenchment efforts to downsize America's role. Almost all our presidents emerge from this vivid retelling in a sharp and unexpected light.

Author : John Sewell
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781459409415

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How We Changed Toronto by John Sewell Pdf

By the mid-1960s Toronto was well on its way to becoming Canada's largest and most powerful city. One real estate firm aptly labelled it Boomtown. Expressways, subways, shopping centres, high-rise apartments, and skyscraping downtown office towers were transforming the city. City officials were cheerleaders for unrestricted growth. All this "progress" had a price. Heritage buildings were disappearing. Whole neighbourhoods were being destroyed -- by city hall itself -- in the name of urban renewal and high-rise developers. Many idealistic, young Torontonians didn't like what they saw. At a time when political activism was in the air, they engaged in local politics. Recently graduated lawyer John Sewell was one of many. He joined his friends working for local residents in areas targeted for demolition by city hall. Others were fighting the Spadina expressway, planned to push its way through the city to the lakeshore. Still others were saving Toronto's Old City Hall from demolition. This was the modest start of a twelve-year transformation of Toronto, chronicled in John Sewell's new book. Bringing together a fascinating cast of characters -- from cigar-chomping developers to Jane Jacobs and David Crombie, from a host of ordinary citizens to some of the world's most innovative architects and planners -- Sewell describes the conflict-filled period when Toronto developed a whole new approach to city government, civic engagement, and planning policies. Sewell went from activist organizer, to high-profile opposition politician, to leading light of a bare reform majority at city hall, to become Toronto's mayor. Along the way he sparked the rethinking of an amazing array of old ideas -- not just about how cities should grow, but about race relations, attitudes toward the LGBT community, and the role of police. His defeat in the city's 1980 election marked the end of a decade of dramatic transformation, but the changes this reform era produced are now entrenched -- in Toronto, but in other Canadian cities, too. How We Changed Toronto is the inside story of activist idealists who set out to change the world -- and did, right in their own backyard.

Author : Dov S. Zakheim
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815725466

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A Vulcan's Tale by Dov S. Zakheim Pdf

A firsthand account of how the Bush administration mismanaged its Afghan campaign, A Vulcan's Tale shines new and important light on the events and people behind the headlines in the immediate years following the September 11 attacks. The "Vulcans," so named by Condoleezza Rice, were eight foreign policy experts who advised George W. Bush during his 2000 presidential campaign. After Bush assumed the presidency, the Vulcans helped shape the administration’s foreign policy following 9/11, including the military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. All were veterans of past administrations, having served under either Ronald Reagan or George H. W. Bush, and they included among their ranks Dov Zakheim. Made comptroller and chief financial officer for the Department of Defense in 2001, Zakheim was also named the DoD’s coordinator for Afghan civilian reconstruction in 2002. In A Vulcan's Tale, Zakheim draws on his own participation and intimate knowledge to analyze how the United States missed critical opportunities while it struggled to manage two wars, particularly the seemingly endless endeavor in Afghanistan. In his view, the Bush administration's disappointing results in Afghanistan were partly attributable to the enormity of the challenges, certainly. But flawed leadership and deficiencies of management, understanding, and forethought all played their parts as well. The power of the purse proved to be especially damaging. The Office of Management and Budget was slow to fund Defense's efforts at the outset of the Afghan conflict and then inadequately funded the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development, casting the die for several additional years of conflict. The invasion of Iraq siphoned off critical resources for Afghanistan, thereby further complicating that country's reconstruction. Even with public policy of the highest order, the devil still lurked in the details, as the DoD's "money man" was soon to discover while he struggled to fund and manage the reconstruction of civilian Afghanistan. A Vulcan's Tale is an authoritative, candid but fair account of how a wise and admirable goal can be waylaid by insufficient funding and ineffective coordination, with the result of faulty—or, at best, incomplete—implementation.

Author : Ron Haskins
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815735090

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Work over Welfare by Ron Haskins Pdf

Work over Welfare tells the inside story of the legislation that ended "welfare as we know it." As a key staffer on the House Ways and Means Committee, author Ron Haskins was one of the architects of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996. In this landmark book, he vividly portrays the political battles that produced the most dramatic overhaul of the welfare system since its creation as part of the New Deal. Haskins starts his story in the early 1990s, as a small group of Republicans lays the groundwork for welfare reform by developing innovative policies to encourage work and fight illegitimacy. These ideas, which included such controversial provisions as mandatory work requirements and time limits for welfare recipients, later became part of the Republicans' Contract with America and were ultimately passed into law. But their success was hardly foreordained. Haskins brings to life the often bitter House and Senate debates the Republican proposals provoked, as well as the backroom negotiations that kept welfare reform alive through two presidential vetoes. In the process, he illuminates both the personalities and the processes that were crucial to the ultimate passage of the 1996 bill. He also analyzes the changes it has wrought on the social and political landscape over the past decade. In Work over Welfare, Haskins has provided the most authoritative account of welfare reform to date. Anyone with an interest in social welfare or politics in general will learn a great deal from this insightful and revealing book.

Author : Philip R. Dame,Bernard H. Martin
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1456380281

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The Evolution of OMB by Philip R. Dame,Bernard H. Martin Pdf

The Evolution of OMB A former senior official of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) commented that: "One of the interesting things about OMB is that it is unexplainable to everyone who lives outside of [Washington, DC] and misunderstood by nearly everyone who lives inside {Washington]". This book attempts to make OMB explainable and understood. It describes the growth and authorities of this powerful agency that prepares the President's annual $3 trillion plus Budget, develops strategies for the management of the entire Executive branch of the federal government, and will be in the center of future debates over the growing federal deficit. For one hundred and fifty years, from 1789 to 1939, American Presidents had little more than a personal secretary to assist in the work of the Presidency. For the Civil War and the First World War, and the depressions of the late 19th and early 20th Century, Presidents had almost no personal staff to assist them, relying on outside advisers and Cabinet officials. In 1939 Franklin Roosevelt created the modern Executive Office of the President (EOP). The Bureau of the Budget (BOB) served as the principal EOP staff agency through the Second World War. Shortly after the War the EOP began to grow. By the beginning of the 21st Century BOB had become OMB, new EOP staff agencies had become institutionalized, and the position of Chief of Staff and a number of Presidential assistants added. Presidents had an EOP staff of more than seventeen hundred people exclusively committed to service to the President, vastly expanding their reach and authority. The President's statutory responsibilities have grown commensurate with the growth of the EOP, and events - and the desires of Presidents. "The Evolution of OMB" reviews the history of OMB and the Presidency beginning with the establishment of BOB in the Treasury in 1921. Two former OMB senior career executives (Philip Dame and Bernard Martin) cover significant periods of change within the agency. Following the history, the authors offer perspectives on OMB's role in the EOP, including the OMB relationship with the President, the Congress, its management role and several other topics. The OMB history was prepared from their own lengthy experience, from research, and by interviewing and soliciting comments from other past OMB staff, both career and politically appointed officials. Vignettes provided by past staff members add insight to the OMB and EOP culture. A number of OMB staff provided original source material. The history will be of interest to Presidential scholars - some of who have already engaged with the authors on the material -- students of the Executive Office and OMB, amateur and professional historians, and ordinary citizens who want to know more about the inner workings of one of the most significant agencies in the federal government among others. The history has already been used as source material for policy officials for the Obama Administration transition team in 2008.