﻿Budget Making in a
Democracy

A NEW VIEW OF THE BUDGET

By EDWARD A. FITZPATRICK, Ph.D.,

Draft Administrator of Wisconsin, Director of the Society for
the Promotion of Training for Public Service.

Cloth, 12°, $1.50

“ If the public will read this book it may possibly be stirred
to a greater exertion of pressure in this humanly important
part of its business.”—New York Sun.

The volume is one of wide social appeal, presenting, in fact,
a new view of the budget. National and state legislators will
be especially interested in the way in which the author brings
the budget problem into direct relation to our fundamental
democracy. Social workers will be interested in the author’s
definite recognition of the expanding and dynamic character of
our social organization and the outlining of a budget program
that helps rather than hinders such programs. Lawyers will
be interested in the rather startling problems raised by the
application of a budget system to the courts. Students of
political science, and all citizens concerned about reconstruc-
tion after the war, will be interested in this illuminating dis-
cussion of an admittedly pressing political problem whose solu-
tion is essential as a preliminary to effective reconstruction
after the war.

The table of contents is as follows: The Budget and
Economy, The Budget—’The Essence of Government, The
Executive Budget, Budget Proposals, The Budget and the
Administration, The Legislature and the Budget, Legislative
Organization and the Budget, The Pork Barrel Problem, Pork
— The Remedies, The Executive Veto, The Courts and the
Budget.

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

Publishers G4-66 Fifth Avenue New York