The Political Economy of City Life Cycles -- Equity and Budgetary Analysis -- Waste Not, Want Not -- Confidence, Competence, and Clientele -- The Political Economy of Outsourcing -- Issues in Budget Execution -- Do Program Budgets and Performance Indicators Influence Budget Allocations? -- Performance Budgeting in Florida -- Implementing and Managing Zero-Base Budgeting -- Target-Based Budgeting in Lincoln County -- Strategic Planning and Budgeting in the "New Texas" -- Transition to Outcome-Based Budgeting -- Forecasting the General Fund Budget of a Local Government -- Revenue Forecasting -- Parties, Professionalism, and Changing -- Capital Budgeting Practices in Local Governments -- Procedures for Programming and Financing Capital Improvements -- Can the Riverside Community Afford a Massive Debt-Financed Capital Improvements Program? -- Budget Analysis -- Budgeting for Unincorporated Area Services -- The Collapse of Federal Fiscal Home Rule in the District of Columbia ...