While I am interested in a broad range of policy and political
topics, my research has focused on government budgeting in the
United States. The Handbook of
Government Budgeting was published by Jossey-Bass in
1999; a Chinese language version was published in 2005 by the
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. My book Strategic
Budgeting (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994)
co-won the Louis Brownlow Book Award from the National Academy of
Public Administration in 1996. I have written journal
articles and reports on normative budgeting models and on a
variety of features of the Congressional budget process and
federal government budgeting. I served on the editorial
board of the Public Administration Review and now am a
member of the editorial board of Public Budgeting and Finance.
I recently presented a paper in Beijing, China on the (dim)
prospects for a sustainable budget in the United States, and
another paper at the 6th ASPA-EGPA Transatlantic Dialogue in Italy
on training public financial managers about political
institutions. Consulting and lecturing activities have
included Congressional Quarterly/Capitol.Net seminars, Mercatus
Institute, the Legacy Leadership Program in Maryland, Slovak
Republic regional governments, the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, Harvard University's and then Duke
University's Program on Budgeting in the Public Sector, George
Washington University's executive education program, the World
Bank, and the USDA Graduate School. My current research
focuses on reform of the federal budgetary process, institutional
concepts in budgeting, methods of priority-setting in budgeting
and related processes, and attempts to limit earmarks. I am
also involved in efforts to improve the budget process in
Maryland. You can access copies of my recent research,
including selected presentations, testimonies and op-eds, in pdf
format. I am an appointed member of the Baltimore
County
Council
Spending
Affordability Committee.
I now teach graduate and undergraduate courses on government
budgeting, a graduate course on the political and social context
of the policy process, and a senior seminar on environmental
policy-making.
I was the founding director of UMBC's Sondheim Public Affairs
Scholars Program, an exciting program which I led from
1999-2010. I taught the introductory seminar for that
program, and have also taught introductory courses in American
government and politics and in public administration, upper-level
courses on political activism and leadership, community research,
senior research seminars on public administration and policy that
focused on environmental and public health policies, and a
graduate course on American national institutions and
policy. I have served on the UMBC faculty's Academic
Planning and Budgeting Committee and as the Truman Foundation's
faculty representative for UMBC. I currently assist members
of the Governor's Summer Internship Program prepare policy papers
for the Governor and his staff.
Roy T. Meyers
Professor
Department of Political
Science
UMBC
318 Public Policy Building
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250