The Fall 2018 issue of Public Budgeting & Finance is now available. Here is the Table of Contents:

“Fiscal Institutional Externalities: The Negative Effects of Local Tax and Expenditure Limits on Municipal Budgetary Solvency.” Benedict S. Jimenez.

“Use of Special Assessments by Municipal Governments in the Chicago Metropolitan Area: Is Leviathan Tamed?” Rebecca Hendrick & Shu Wang.

“Budget Reforms in Times of Austerity: A Centralization Cascade in Danish Central Government?” Mads Bøge Kristiansen

“Why Are We Lagging Behind? An Empirical Analysis of Municipal Capital Spending in the United States.” Wen Wang & Yonghong Wu

“Book Review: Government Budgeting and Expenditure Management: Principles and International Practice, by Salvatore Schiavo‐Campo. New York, NY: Routledge,2017.” Vito Tanzi