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Author Pugh, Brian A., author.

Title Chaos and compromise : the evolution of the Mississippi budgeting process / Brian A. Pugh
Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2020
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Contents Chapter 1: The origin and evolution of Mississippi's budget process and control over it -- Chapter 2: Legislative power weakened -- Chapter 3: The budget process, postreorganization, under Allain -- Chapter 4: Temporarily enhanced executive influence over budget decisions under Mabus -- Chapter 5: The legislature's intervention with budget reform -- Chapter 6: Executive-legislative conflict under Fordice -- Chapter 7: A progressive approach to budgeting under Musgrove -- Chapter 8: Barbour, the influential executive -- Chapter 9: Legislative joint rules change -- Chapter 10: Budget control under Bryant
Summary "Chaos and Compromise: The Evolution of the Mississippi Budgeting Process takes the topic of budgeting and makes it exciting, and not just for political junkies. Instead of focusing on numbers, this book looks at the policymakers responsible for the budget. Brian A. Pugh provides a historical perspective on the decisions and actions of legislators and governors going back more than a century. Pugh reviews how Mississippi's budget making evolved and sifts legislation and litigation as well as those legislators and governors responsible for developing this process. Pugh explains in detail the significant actions taken by the legislative, judicial, and executive branches of government that affected Mississippi's procedures. Significant legislation covered includes the passage of Senate Bill 356, which gave the governor the authority to prepare and submit a budget recommendation in 1918; the passage of the Administrative Reorganization Act of 1984; the passage of the Budget Reform Act of 1992; and the passage of the Financial and Operational Responses That Invigorate Future Years Act (FORTIFY) during the First Extraordinary Session of 2017. The first two chapters provide a historical perspective and give the reader an understanding of how legislation and litigation contributed. The book also covers interventions by the courts, which led to the unprecedented separation of powers case Alexander v. State of Mississippi by and Through Allain (1983). In addition to discussing important laws and legislators, Pugh takes a detailed look at six of Mississippi's recent governors-Bill Allain, Ray Mabus, Kirk Fordice, Ronnie Musgrove, Haley Barbour, and Phil Bryant-to examine their methods for getting the legislature to include their ideas in the often anguished process of making a budget"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 12, 2020)
Subject Allain, William Alexander, 1928-2013.
Mabus, Ray, 1948-
Fordice, Daniel Kirkwood, 1934-2004.
Musgrove, David Ronald, 1956-
Barbour, Haley, 1947-
Bryant, Phil (Dewey Phillip), 1954-
SUBJECT Bryant, Phil (Dewey Phillip), 1954-
Barbour, Haley, 1947-
Musgrove, David Ronald, 1956-
Fordice, Daniel Kirkwood, 1934-2004
Mabus, Ray, 1948-
Allain, William Alexander, 1928-2013
Barbour, Haley, 1947- fast
Fordice, Daniel Kirkwood, 1934-2004 fast
Mabus, Ray, 1948- fast
Subject Budget -- Mississippi
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Budgeting.
Budget
Economic policy
Expenditures, Public
SUBJECT Mississippi -- Appropriations and expenditures
Mississippi -- Economic policy
Subject Mississippi
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020016829
ISBN 9781496830234
1496830237
9781496830203
1496830202
9781496830210
1496830210
9781496830227
1496830229
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