POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF BUDGET REFORM - A RETROSPECTIVE

What are Aaron Wildavsky's thoughts on his classic study of budgeting and budgetary reform? "Political Implications of Budget Reform, " originally published in PAR in 1961 (Volume 21, No. 1), was the the harbinger of The Politics Of the Budgetary Process, a book that rates as one of the field's masterworks. Given the opportunity to revisit the article; Wildavsky offers reflections (see the italicized comments) on a variety of passages in this abridged version. Comments by Glenn Deck and Marcia Lynn Whicker follow.