Inside OMB:

Through its budgetary, managerial and regulatory review mandates, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the US can function as an "enforcer" with a significant impact on public policy and its implementation. This is a study of the OMB and its significant role within the American government. OMB: A Presidential Advisor “For All Seasons”; Learning the Institutional Map: OMB Organization and Staff Roles; The Bureau's First Sixty Years: Ancient History or Not?; Institutional Service to the President, 1976–1980: The Roles of the Budget Examiners; Onslaught in the 1980s: Causes and Effects for OMB; OMB's Budget Preparation Mandate Goes Second Tier; OMB and Congress, 1973–1992: Role Reversal and Stalemate; OMB and the Agencies: Communicating, Managing, and “Regulating the Regulators”; OMB Meets the Clintonites: Transitions Within Transitions; Beyond the Deluge: The Clinton OMB after the 1994 Election; Beyond OMB 2000: One Bridge to the Twenty-First Century; Epilogue