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 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 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. Consulting and lecturing activities have included 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, Congressional Quarterly/Capitol.Net seminars, and the USDA Graduate School My current research focuses on reform of the federal budgetary process, methods of priority-setting in budget processes, and comparative legislative budgeting. I am also involved in attempts to improve the budget process in Maryland. You can access copies of my recent research in pdf format.
At UMBC, I currently teach graduate and undergraduate courses on
government
budgeting and the
introductory
seminar for UMBC's Sondheim
Public
Affairs Scholars Program, an exciting program which I direct--take
a look at our web site. I have also taught
introductory courses in American government and politics and in public
administration, a course on political activism and leadership, senior
research seminars on public administration and
policy that focuses on environmental and public health policies, and a
graduate course on American national institutions and policy. I
serve on UMBC faculty's Academic
Planning and Budgeting Committee, and am the Truman Foundation's
faculty representative for UMBC.
Roy T.
Meyers
Professor
Department of Political
Science
UMBC
318 Public Policy Building
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250