Alternative Budgets : Budgeting As If People Mattered

Acknowledgements 7(2) Introduction 9(7) Budgets: The Technical Side Made Easy 16(14) Expenditures, Revenues, Deficits, Surpluses and Debt: An Introduction 16(3) Expenditures Taken Further 19(2) Revenues Taken Further 21(3) Other Types of Revenue 24(1) More on Deficits and Debt 25(3) Notes 28(2) The Public Policy Side of Budgets 30(20) The Role of the State Budget 30(2) The Dynamics of Government Spending 32(4) Principles of Taxation 36(10) Budgets, Constitutional and Intergovernmental Relations 46(2) Notes 48(2) Why Alternative Budgets? 50(7) The Neo-Conservative Attack on the Public Sector 51(3) Opposing Neo-Conservatism 54(2) Notes 56(1) Making Alternative Budgets: Some General Considerations 57(17) Objectives and Principles 57(3) Balancing Politics and Technical Concerns 60(2) Putting the Numbers Together 62(3) Access to Information 65(1) Getting the Word Out 66(2) Working with the Media 68(2) Popular Education 70(1) Follow-up 71(2) Notes 73(1) The Alternative Federal Budget in Canada 74(33) Context 74(2) The Structure of the Federal Budget and the Fiscal Situation Since 1994--95 76(3) The Objectives, Principles and Organizational Structure of the AFB 79(2) There Is, in Fact, an Alternative: The Macroeconomic Framework of the AFB 81(3) The Expenditure Side of the AFB 84(4) Financing the AFB: Tax Fairness 88(2) Fiscal Forecasting 90(1) The AFB and Poverty 91(1) The AFB and Gender Concerns 92(1) Gender-Sensitive Budgets Elsewhere: Alternative Approaches to the AFB 93(2) The AFB and the Environment 95(1) The AFB as Participatory Budgeting 96(1) Critiques and Weaknesses of the AFB 97(6) Accomplishments of the AFB Exercise 103(2) Notes 105(2) Alternative Provincial Budgets 107(26) Context 107(2) The Manitoba Case 109(5) The Budgets of Cho!ce, 1991--2000 114(7) Alternative Budget Exercises in Other Provinces: A Synopsis 121(5) Notes 126(2) Appendix to Chapter Six: Balanced Budget Legislation or Bad Budget Legislation? 128(5) Alternative Civic Budgets 133(24) Context 133(1) The Winnipeg Case 134(18) The Alternative Budget for the Ottawa Region, 1997 152(1) Participatory Democracy in Porto Alegre Brazil 153(3) Notes 156(1) Accomplishments and Potentials 157(12) The Impact of the AFB on Government Policy 159(3) Assessing the Manitoba Budgets of Choice 162(6) Notes 168(1) Bibliography 169(7) About the Author 176