Abstract
In this chapter, we will first sketch out how budget making has evolved from an executive-centered, Democratic dominated process to one in which the executive and the legislature, Democrats and Republicans, share power. Secondly, the makeup of the budget will be analyzed, the major revenue sources and spending programs identified, as well as the trends in those realms. In doing so, we will highlight the constraints and opportunities facing the participants in the budget process. Finally, we will discuss how budgeting during the 1998 session illustrated several institutional and partisan features that had been in place before the session began.
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1999
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Copyright © 1999 Simon and Schuster. This chapter first appeared in Government and Politics in Virginia: The Old Dominion at the 21st Century.
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Recommended Citation
Palazzolo, Daniel J., and John T. Whelan. Government and Politics at the Virginia: The Old Dominion in the 21st Century. Edited by Quentin Kidd. Needham Heights, MA: Simon & Schuster Custom Pub., 1999. 67-80.