"Brendon Swedlow and Transaction have rendered policy scholars, budget specialists, and public managers a tremendous service by pulling together this posthumous collection of Aaron Wildavsky's writings on the vital, if often politically tense, relationship between budgeting and governing. Those who have never read the 16 articles contained in the book...are in for an intellectual treat. Those already well versed in the major arguments and themes of this work will be reminded of how much the public policy world lost when Wildavsky died in 1993." - Eric M. Patashnik, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management "[Wildavsky] was one of the few people in the field who took the word 'science,' as in political science, to mean precisely that: the scientific study of political behavior and its institutions. He was also one of the even rarer groups of people in the discipline who expressed his moral preferences and concerns in plain words." - Irving Louis Horowitz, Tributes"

• 1: Making Budgets; 1: A Budget for All Seasons? Why the Traditional Budget Lasts; 2: The Political Economy of Efficiency; 3: Rescuing Policy Analysis; 4: Toward a Radical Incrementalism: A Proposal to Aid Congress in Reform of the Budgetary Process; 5: The Annual Expenditure Increment; 6: Budgetary Reform in an Age of Big Government; 7: Equality, Spending Limits, and the Growth of Government; 2: The Culture of Budgeting; 8: Toward a Comparative Theory of Budgetary Processes; 9: Prologue to Planning and Budgeting in Poor Countries; 10: The Movement toward Spending Limits in American and Canadian Budgeting; 11: The Transformation of Budgetary Norms; 12: A Cultural Theory of Expenditure Growth and (Un)Balaneed Budgets; 13: The Budget as New Social Contract; 14: On the Balance of Budgetary Cultures; 3: Budgeting and Governing; 15: Securing Budgetary Convergence within the European Community without Central Direction; 16: If You Can’t Budget, How Can You Govern?; Postscript: Aaron Wildavsky, Cultural Theory, and Budgeting

"Brendon Swedlow and Transaction have rendered policy scholars, budget specialists, and public managers a tremendous service by pulling together this posthumous collection of Aaron Wildavsky's writings on the vital, if often politically tense, relationship between budgeting and governing. Those who have never read the 16 articles contained in the book...are in for an intellectual treat. Those already well versed in the major arguments and themes of this work will be reminded of how much the public policy world lost when Wildavsky died in 1993." - Eric M. Patashnik, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management "[Wildavsky] was one of the few people in the field who took the word 'science,' as in political science, to mean precisely that: the scientific study of political behavior and its institutions. He was also one of the even rarer groups of people in the discipline who expressed his moral preferences and concerns in plain words." - Irving Louis Horowitz, Tributes"

• 1: Making Budgets; 1: A Budget for All Seasons? Why the Traditional Budget Lasts; 2: The Political Economy of Efficiency; 3: Rescuing Policy Analysis; 4: Toward a Radical Incrementalism: A Proposal to Aid Congress in Reform of the Budgetary Process; 5: The Annual Expenditure Increment; 6: Budgetary Reform in an Age of Big Government; 7: Equality, Spending Limits, and the Growth of Government; 2: The Culture of Budgeting; 8: Toward a Comparative Theory of Budgetary Processes; 9: Prologue to Planning and Budgeting in Poor Countries; 10: The Movement toward Spending Limits in American and Canadian Budgeting; 11: The Transformation of Budgetary Norms; 12: A Cultural Theory of Expenditure Growth and (Un)Balaneed Budgets; 13: The Budget as New Social Contract; 14: On the Balance of Budgetary Cultures; 3: Budgeting and Governing; 15: Securing Budgetary Convergence within the European Community without Central Direction; 16: If You Can’t Budget, How Can You Govern?; Postscript: Aaron Wildavsky, Cultural Theory, and Budgeting

"Brendon Swedlow and Transaction have rendered policy scholars, budget specialists, and public managers a tremendous service by pulling together this posthumous collection of Aaron Wildavsky's writings on the vital, if often politically tense, relationship between budgeting and governing. Those who have never read the 16 articles contained in the book...are in for an intellectual treat. Those already well versed in the major arguments and themes of this work will be reminded of how much the public policy world lost when Wildavsky died in 1993." - Eric M. Patashnik, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management "[Wildavsky] was one of the few people in the field who took the word 'science,' as in political science, to mean precisely that: the scientific study of political behavior and its institutions. He was also one of the even rarer groups of people in the discipline who expressed his moral preferences and concerns in plain words." - Irving Louis Horowitz, Tributes"

• 1: Making Budgets; 1: A Budget for All Seasons? Why the Traditional Budget Lasts; 2: The Political Economy of Efficiency; 3: Rescuing Policy Analysis; 4: Toward a Radical Incrementalism: A Proposal to Aid Congress in Reform of the Budgetary Process; 5: The Annual Expenditure Increment; 6: Budgetary Reform in an Age of Big Government; 7: Equality, Spending Limits, and the Growth of Government; 2: The Culture of Budgeting; 8: Toward a Comparative Theory of Budgetary Processes; 9: Prologue to Planning and Budgeting in Poor Countries; 10: The Movement toward Spending Limits in American and Canadian Budgeting; 11: The Transformation of Budgetary Norms; 12: A Cultural Theory of Expenditure Growth and (Un)Balaneed Budgets; 13: The Budget as New Social Contract; 14: On the Balance of Budgetary Cultures; 3: Budgeting and Governing; 15: Securing Budgetary Convergence within the European Community without Central Direction; 16: If You Can’t Budget, How Can You Govern?; Postscript: Aaron Wildavsky, Cultural Theory, and Budgeting