1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990002196390203316

Autore

GIRARD, Giorgio

Titolo

Lavoro, motivazione e valori sociali : contributo alla psicologia del cambiamento sociale in quattro ricerche sull'assenteismo e sull'autonomia nel lavoro / Giorgio Girad

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : F. Angeli, 1977

Descrizione fisica

206 p. ; 24 cm

Collana

Collana di psicologia

Collocazione

Coll. FW V 2

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460408403321

Autore

Farrier Jasmine <1970->

Titolo

Passing the buck : Congress, the budget, and deficits / / Jasmine Farrier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2004

©2004

ISBN

0-8131-8933-0

0-8131-7197-0

0-8131-5674-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Disciplina

328.73/0778

Soggetti

Budget - United States

Budget process - United States

Finance, Public - United States

Budget deficits - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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