Further Reading


Bartelt, Edward F. Accounting Procedures of the United States Government. Chicago, Illinois: Public Administration Service, 1940.

Bolles, Albert S. The Financial History of the United States. New York, NY: A. M. Kelley, 1969.

Bullock, Charles J. The Finances of the United States from 1775 to 1789, with Especial References to the Budget. Philadelphia, PA: Porcupine Press, 1979.

Calabresi, Steven G., and Christopher S. Yoo. The Unitary Executive: Presidential Power from Washington to Bush. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008.

Cleveland, Frederick A. “The Federal Budget: What the President Is Trying to Do by Way of Budget Making for the National Government.” Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science in the City of New York 3, no. 2 (January 1913): 117–31. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.2307/1193361.

Collins, Charles Wallace. The National Budget System. New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1917.

Dawes, Charles G. The First Year of the Budget of the United States. New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1923.

Dearborn, John A. “The ‘Proper Organs’ for Presidential Representation: A Fresh Look at the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921.” Journal of Policy History 31, no. 1 (November 30, 2019): 1–41. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0898030618000325.

Dewey, Davis R. Financial History of the United States. 12th ed. New York, NY: A. M. Kelley, 1968.

Emmerich, Herbert. Federal Organization and Administrative Management. Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press, 1971.

Feld, Alan L. “The Shrunken Power of the Purse,” 89 Boston University Law Review 487 (2009). Available at: https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/498/.

Ferguson, E. James. The Power of the Purse: A History of American Public Finance, 1776-1790. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1961.

Forsythe, Dall W. Taxation and Political Change in the Young Nation, 1781-1833. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1977.

Garfield, James A. “National Appropriations and Misappropriations.” The North American Review 128, no. 271 (June 1, 1879): 572–86. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25100761.

Hogeland, William. Founding Finance: How Debt, Speculation, Foreclosures, Protests, and Crackdowns Made Us a Nation. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2012.

Kiewiet, D. Roderick, and Matthew D. McCubbins. The Logic of Delegation: Congressional Parties and the Appropriations Process. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Kimmel, Lewis H. Federal Budget and Fiscal Policy, 1789-1958. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1959.

Leloup, Lance. The Fiscal Congress. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1980.

Love, Robert A. Federal Financing: A Study of the Methods Employed by the Treasury in Its Borrowing Operations. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1931.

Mansfield, Harvey C. “Reorganizing the Federal Executive Branch: The Limits of Institutionalization.” Law and Contemporary Problems 35, no. 3 (1970): 461–95. https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/lcp/vol35/iss3/4.

National Industrial Conference Board. Cost of Government, 1923-1934. Edited by Lewis H. Kimmel. New York, NY: National Industrial Conference Board, 1934.

Niefeld, S. J. “The Development of the Budget System of the United States.” FinanzArchiv / Public Finance Analysis 13, no. 4 (1951): 606–14. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40908786.

Noyes, Alexander D. Forty Years of American Finance: A Short Financial History of the Government and People of the United States since the Civil War, 1865-1907. 2nd ed. New York, NY: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1909.

Rockoff, Hugh. “The Origins of the Federal Budget.” The Journal of Economic History 45, no. 2 (1985): 377–82. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2121707.

Schick, Allen. Congress and Money: Budgeting, Spending and Taxing. Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute, 1980.

———. The Federal Budget: Politics, Policy, Process. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 2000.

Select Committee on the Budget. “National Budget System.” Washington, D.C.: U.S. House of Representatives, March 25, 1921. https://budgetcounsel.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/baa1921-h-r-30-h-rep-67-14.pdf.

Selko, Dnaiel. The Federal Finance System. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1940.

Senate Appropriations Committee. “Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate: 135th Anniversary, 1867-2002.” Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2002. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CDOC-107sdoc13/pdf/CDOC-107sdoc13.pdf.

Smith, Harold D. “The Budget as an Instrument of Legislative Control and Executive Management.” Public Administration Review 4, no. 3 (1944): 181–88. https://doi.org/10.2307/972547.

Stevenson, Faber. The Accounting System of the United States from 1789 to 1910. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1911.

Stewart, III, Charles H. Budget Reform Politics: The Design of the Appropriations Process in the House of Representatives, 1865-1921. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Sundquist, James L. The Decline and Resurgence of Congress. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1981.

Taft, William Howard. Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1916. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Our_Chief_Magistrate_and_His_Powers/oyFAAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&kptab=overview.

———. “The Need for a National Budget: Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting Report of the Commission on Economy and Efficiency on the Subject of the Need for a National Budget.” Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1912. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Need_for_a_National_Budget/nV8JEUwUc6sC?hl=en&gbpv=0.

White, Bill. America’s Fiscal Constitution: Its Triumph and Collapse. New York, NY: PublicAffairs, 2014.

Wildavsky, Aaron B. Budgeting and Governing. Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2006.
———. The New Politics of the Budgetary Process. 5th ed. New York, NY: Longman, 2003.