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Table of Contents
1. Budgeting as Conflicting Promises.
2. Budgets as Struggles for Power: A Historical Perspective.
3. The Dance of the Dollars: Classical Budgeting.
4. The Collapse of Consensus.
5. The Politics of Dissensus.
6. The Politics of Balancing Budgets.
7. Deficits and Surpluses.
8. Entitlement.
9. Budgeting for Defense.
10. Reform.
11. Budget of Opposites.
Glossary.
Guide to Acronyms.
Select Bibliography.
Credits.
Index.