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

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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 Jr

    (Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA)

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.

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  • A T Cowart & F D Gilliam Jr, 1985. "Budgeting in a Newly Established Agency: The First Twenty Years of the United States Civil Rights Commission," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 3(2), pages 235-241, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirc:v:3:y:1985:i:2:p:235-241
    DOI: 10.1068/c030235
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