The Politics Of Public Budgeting: Getting and Spending, Borrowing and Balancing, 5th Edition
Irene S. Rubinis professor emeritus of political  science in the division of public administration at Northern Illinois  University. She is the author of a number of other books on public  budgeting, includingBalancing the Federal Budget: Trimming the Herds or  Eating the Seed Corn?, Class, Tax and Power: Municipal Budgeting in the  United States,andShrinking the Federal Government.She edited  the journalPublic Budgeting and Financefor two years andPublic  Administration Reviewfor three, and was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson  Center in Washington in 1996.