Underpinning government capital and infrastructure management in state and local government

In Pursuit of Performance: Management Systems in State and Local Government

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 57-81

  Ebdon, Carol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

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1. U. S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, State and Local Government Finances: 1999-2000, www.census.gov/govs/estimate/oosloous.html (accessed January 2003).
2. For example, Pat Choate and Susan Walters, America in Ruins: Beyond the Public Works Pork Barrel (Washington, DC: Council of State Planning Agencies, 1981).
3. American Society of Civil Engineers, "2001 Report Card for America's Infrastructure", www.asce.org/reportcard/index.cfm?reaction= fullfull&pages=∧ (accessed October 2001).
4. Beverly S. Bunch, "Current Practices and Issues in Capital Budgeting and Reporting", Public Budgeting and Finance 16, no. 2(1996):7-25.
5. John Mikesell, Fiscal Administration: Analysis and Applications for the Public Sector, 5th ed. (Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace, 1999).
6. On coordination with a strategic plan, see Arie Halachmi and Alex Sekwat, "Strategic Capital Budgeting and Planning: Prospects at the County Level", Public Budgeting and Financial Management8, no. 4(1997):578-96;
7. and Jane Beckett-Camarata, "An Examination of the Relationship between the Municipal Strategic Plan and the Capital Budget and Its Effect on Financial Performance", Public Budgeting, Accounting, and Financial Management 15, no. 1(2003):23-40.
8. Roland Calia, "Are All Public Spending Programs Equal? Priority Setting Approaches for Governmental Budgeting", Government Finance Review 17, no. 4(2001):18-23.
9. For an overview of this literature, see Carol Ebdon, "Citizen Participation in the Budget Process: Exit, Voice, and Loyalty", in the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy (New York: Marcel Dekker, 2003, 173-76).
10. Susan A. MacManus, "Democratizing the Capital Budget Planning and Project Selection Process at the Local Level: Assets and Liabilities", Public Budgeting and Financial Management 8, no. 3(1996):406-27.
11. U. S. General Accounting Office, Executive Guide: Leading Practices in Capital Decision-Making, GAO/AIMD-99-32 (Washington, DC, December 1998).
12. Daniel L. Dornan, "GASB 34's Impacts on Infrastructure Management, Financing, and Reporting" (Bethesda, MD: Infrastructure Management Group, June 2000).
13. Beverly S. Bunch, "Current Practices and Issues in Capital Budgeting and Planning: Prospects at the County Level", Public Budgeting and Financial Management 8, no. 4(1997):578-96;
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16. For further information on GASB Statement 34, see the symposium in Public Budgeting and Finance 21, no. 3(2001):1-87.
17. John P. Forrester, "Municipal Capital Budgeting: An Examination", Public Budgeting and Finance 13, no. 2(1993):85-103.
18. Cameron Gordon, "The Fables and Foibles of Federal Capital Budgeting", Public Budgeting and Finance 18, no. 3(1998):54-71.
19. Donald Darr, "The Benefits of Long-Range Capital Planning: The Virginia Experience", Public Budgeting and Finance 18, no. 3(1998):42-53.
20. John E. Petersen, "The Management Factor", Governing 14, no. 9(June 2001):64.
21. See, for example, Michael A. Pagano, "Municipal Capital Spending during the 'Boom, '" Public Budgeting and Finance 22, no 2(2002):1-20;
22. John Bartle, "Coping with Cutbacks: City Response to Aid Cuts in New York State", State and Local Government Review 28, no. 1(1996):38-48;
23. and Charles Levine, Irene Rubin, and George Wolohojian, eds., The Politics of Retrenchment (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1981).
24. Katherine Barrett and Richard Greene, "Grading the States 2005: A Management Report Card", Governing 18, no. 5(2005):24-95.
25. Carol Ebdon, "Capital Management Practices in U. S. Counties", Public Works Management and Policy 8, no. 3(2004):192-202.