| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Book Review

Why Budgets Matter: Budget Policy and American Politics. By Dennis S. Ippolito. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. xiv, 329 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-271-02259-0.)

Historians have generally been more interested in specific federal policies than the federal budget in aggregate. The political scientist Dennis S. Ippolito makes a strong case that the overall budget merits attention as "a measure of political reality that uses money" (p. xiii). His purpose is to illuminate the political significance of budget policy from the nation's founding to the present and beyond and to explore what budget policy outcomes tell us about past struggles over the size and role of the federal government.

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