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UNINA9910787378403321 |
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Farrier Jasmine <1970-> |
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Passing the buck : Congress, the budget, and deficits / / Jasmine Farrier |
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Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2004 |
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©2004 |
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0-8131-8933-0 |
0-8131-7197-0 |
0-8131-5674-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (300 p.) |
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Budget - United States |
Budget process - United States |
Finance, Public - United States |
Budget deficits - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction -- Origins and significance of delegation of power -- Reforming the reforms : a brief history of congressional budgeting -- 1974 Budget Act : Congress takes control -- Congress attacks deficits (and itself) with Gramm-Rudman-Hollings -- Old problems and new tools of self-restraint : the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 -- Stop us before we spend again : the Line-Item Veto Act of 1996 -- Conclusions. |
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In the past thirty years, Congress has dramatically changed its response to unpopular deficit spending. While the landmark Congressional Budget Act of 1974 tried to increase congressional budgeting powers, new budget processes created in the 1980's and 1990's were all explicitly designed to weaken member, majority, and institutional budgeting prerogatives. These later reforms shared the premise that Congress cannot naturally forge balanced budgets without new automatic mechanisms and enhanced presidential oversight. So Democratic majorities in Congress gave new budgeting powers to Presidents Reagan |
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UNINA9910953910403321 |
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Cobbett William <1763-1835., > |
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The opinions of William Cobbett / / edited by James Grande, John Stevenson and Richard Thomas |
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London : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
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1-351-88462-X |
1-315-23796-2 |
1-4094-6433-4 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (225 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Politicians - Great Britain |
Journalists - Great Britain |
Great Britain Politics and government 1789-1820 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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First published 2013 by Ashgate Pub. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Contents; Foreword by Richard Ingrams; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Cobbett's Early Life and Progress; 2 Corruption; 3 Patriotism and Nationalism; 4 Parliamentary Reform; 5 Villains and Pet Hates; 6 Sound Money and Cottage Economy; 7 Religion, Medievalism and the Gothic; 8 Love and Marriage; 9 Poverty and the Poor Laws; 10 America; 11 Scotland and Ireland; 12 Agriculture, Commerce and Industry; 13 Literature, Sensibility and the Romantics; Chronology of Cobbett's Life; Bibliography |
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Politician, journalist, reformer, convict, social commentator and all-round thorn in the side of the establishment, Cobbett had a talent for controversial and pugnacious writing that echoes down the centuries and still rings fresh today. Commemorating the 250th anniversary of Cobbett's birth in 1763, this book provides a selection of his writings - both published and unpublished - that highlight his talents, obsessions, and concerns. This book not only brings to life the dynamic and rumbustious world of Georgian England within which Cobbett moved, but also reveals many uncanny parallels with m |
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