Budgeting in a Newly Established Agency: The First Twenty Years of the United States Civil Rights Commission

A T Cowart and F D Gilliam
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A T Cowart: Department of Political Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11790, USA
F D Gilliam: Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA

Environment and Planning C, 1985, vol. 3, issue 2, 235-241

Abstract: Contemporary research on the budgetary process places a strong emphasis on the striking regularity of budgetary decisionmaking in established governmental agencies. Newly formed and politically controversial public-agencies, however, may play the budgetary game by a different set of ground rules. Our expectation is that agencies of this type are likely to be more sensitive to variations in their political and economic contexts than are well-established agencies. In this paper we analyze the United States Civil Rights Commission as an example of a newly formed public-agency. Our findings suggest that the budget for the Commission has been sensitive to fluctuations in its policy-relevant conditions in the first twenty years of its existence.

Date: 1985
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DOI: 10.1068/c030235

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