R. Mark Musell, Ryan Yeung

Understanding Government Budgets (eBook, ePUB)

A Guide to Practices in the Public Service

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This concise guide, written in accessible language and covering a full range of topics through examples from real budgets is an essential primer for preparing students to engage with larger issues of budgeting in their careers. Musell's attention to the choices made over how to formally structure a budget are unparalleled and his hands-on, applied approach to the nuts and bolts of agency budgets prepares future administrators and public managers for a career in government budgeting.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315474830
• Artikelnr.: 57466411

Autorenporträt

R. Mark Musell is the book's principal author. For ten years he was the director of the master's program in public administration at the City College of New York, where he taught courses in public budgeting and finance. He spent 25 years at the Congressional Budget Office studying the federal budget and providing members of Congress and their staff with budgetary information and analysis.

Ryan Yeung is an assistant professor of urban policy and planning at Hunter College, where he teaches courses in budgeting and financial management, policy analysis, policy process, program evaluation, and education policy. He has a Ph.D. in public administration and policy from Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, a master of public administration from New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, and a bachelor of arts in economics and American studies from Amherst College.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. The Basics of Government Budgets: Coverage, Status, and
Numbers 3. The Basics of Budget Structure 4. Public Employment Totals in
Budgets 5. Performance Measures in Budgets 6. Capital Spending in Budgets
7. Tax Expenditures and Tax Expenditure Budgets 8. Budgeting in the
Nonprofit Sector 9. The Federal Budget: An Example from The National
Archives 10. Small Town USA: An Example from Avon, Connecticut 11.
Performance in Budgeting: An Example from the State of Texas 12. Program
Information in Budgets: An Example from Wichita Kansas