The Council of State Governments 289 Introduction The current fiscal crisis is provoking budget reductions so deep they threaten the basic mission of state courts. Massachusetts Chief Justice Margaret Marshall recently described the state courts, which handle 95 percent of all criminal and civil litigation in the country, as poised at “the tipping point of dysfunction.”1 In the 2010 fiscal year...

BACKGROUND The article explores the implications of personal budgets within English social care services, which position the individual as market actor. Rooting the research in the broader personalization agenda, the study looks at the limitations of the market in relation to individual purchase of private goods (e.g. home care), in the pooling of funds to purchase group services and in the pro...

With the introduction of primary care groups (PCGs), the British National Health Service has attempted to integrate delivery, finance, and quality improvement into a locally directed care system with a strong sense of community accountability. PCGs will eventually hold the budgets for primary care, specialist, hospital, and community-based services and have the flexibility to reapportion these ...

The paper is devoted to the characteristics of functioning budget system, as a component in conditions martial law, which one most important issues viability our state. purpose study peculiarities system through under well analysis key norms legislation that ensure organization and Ukraine today's realities. main difference between normatively defined simple set budgets, is, fact, mechanism sys...