Budget Practices and State Expenditures

Introduction -- Budget practices with potential spending implications -- The budget timeline -- Links between budget practices and expenditures -- Funding targets -- Legislative access to budget requests -- Performance measurement -- Performance management -- Performance budgeting -- Mid-session budget revisions -- Budget practices across the nation and in California -- The national landscape -- The development of California's current budget practices -- Current budget practices in comparable states -- Data sources -- Methods and regression results -- Bibliography.