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This 8 page paper provides an overview of the budgeting process in state governments, which is inextricably linked to political processes and policy determinations that in turn define budgetary directives. Political theorists and budget analysts have suggested the policies dictate elements of the budgetary process, but the availability of fiscal support and the support within the budget development process may in fact determine whether specific policies remain. This paper considers these issues. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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policies dictate elements of the budgetary process, but the availability of fiscal support and the support within the budget development process may in fact determine whether specific policies remain.
The intertwined nature of the budgeting process and the development of policies, programs and initiatives suggests a need to assess policy determinations, micro and macro budgetary processes, and the assessment
of a theoretical basis through which state budgeting can be understood. The basis of this perspective and of defining the correlation between the budget process and policy determinations
is based on the statement by Thurmaier and Willoughby, which reflects the fact that "sweeping changes must be considered, because combination of growing demand and limited state resources will not
permit painless solutions" (31). In other words, Thurmaier and Willoughby argue that policy changes cannot occur effortlessly and so an assessment of the process of change and the necessity
for budget support is based on the availability of funds and the capacity to define value outcomes relative to the implementation of certain policies or the continuation of certain agencies.
"The first confluence of the budget and policy streams is the period when the SBO examiners must evaluate the budget and policy proposals arriving on their desks at the
beginning of the budget-development phase of the budget process. The requirements that policy solutions have budgetary feasibility means that, de facto, they have become budget decisions" (Thurmaier and Willoughby
59). Following the World Trace Center destruction on September 11, 2001, the State of New York determined the need to increase their internal security, and the budgetary developments
that ensued were in direct reaction to the issues of September 11. The creation of a Security Department and the subsequent changes in the budget of the state was
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