Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1	Policy Periodicity
Chapter 2	How Short-Term Authorizations Work
Chapter 3 	Controlling Policy Change
Chapter 4	Signaling to Appropriators: Who's Listening?
Chapter 5	Oversight and Short-Term Authorizations
Chapter 6	Steering Agencies with Reauthorizations
Chapter 7 	Policy Control and Short-Term Authorizations
Chapter 8 	The New Policy Environment
Chapter 9	Conclusion
Methodological Appendix
Notes
References
Index




Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Budget process United States, Budget United States, United States,  Congress Committees, Government spending United States Decision making, United States Appropriations and expenditures Decision making, Policy sciences