History

What is decentralization for the federal budget?

Link to this answer

CloseClose

Link to this answer

Share this credible answer with others. Simply paste this code into your blog or Web page:

<a href="http://qanda.encyclopedia.com/question/decentralization-federal-budget-614532.html" >What is decentralization for the federal budget?</a>
E-mail this answer Link to this answer

Another technique is "decentralization," where Congress debates lump sums of funding rather than the specific programs funded by those sums. These lump sums can go to a federal bureaucracy or state or local government, where specific spending decisions are made.

Answer verified with
Get more facts and information about Budget, Federal from Dictionary of American History at Encyclopedia.com.

Similar questions: Does Congress use decentralization to reach a compromise regarding the federal budget? What is the term used for when Congress debates lump sums of funding rather than the specific programs funded by those sums? [ Hide these questions ]

Related research questions

Related research articles

OVERHAUL AT HEART OF SEATTLE SCHOOLS BUDGET PLAN $345.8 MILLION PROPOSAL...
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) ...The 1997-98 budget will carry out...to schools, the budget will direct funds...As part of the decentralization effort, which...wrote separate budgets. Budget manager Geri Lim...grants, gifts, federal money and sources...new emphasis on decentralization. The lost days...
Governance, Decentralization and Reform in China, India and Russia.
Magazine article from: National Tax Journal ...setting up a system of budgets that best approximate...expenditure items. DECENTRALIZATION AND PUBLIC SECTOR...context of fiscal decentralization depends upon overall...outcome of the fiscal decentralization reform process...frameworks: (i) federal finance, a bargaining...
Decentralization and Inflation: Commitment, Collective Action, or...
Magazine article from: American Political Science Review ...relationship between decentralization and the level...Political decentralization, however...veto players, federal structure may...that political decentralization locks in a...softness of budget constraints...
Bolivia Defies Past, Tries Decentralization; After Centuries of Domination by...
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post ...retained of local taxes or on the meager federal payment, which in 1993 was $250, or...share, 181 did not receive one cent in federal funding in 1993. The law is not without...region, were the ones that planned the budget. But it was difficult for the towns to...
THERE'S MORE TO KASICH'S PHILOSOPHY THAN A BALANCED BUDGET.(NEWS)(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) ...his own alternative budget during his tenure as...that will balance the federal budget within seven...from the centralized federal government and redistribute...years, he said, the federal government became a...resolved through systematic decentralization. A lot of what Kasich...
See all results at HighBeam

HighBeam gives you access to newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles plus press releases, facts, information, and biographies from thousands of sources.