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 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 Congressional Quarterly/Capitol.Net seminars, Mercatus
Institute, 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, methods of priority-setting in budget processes, and attempts
to limit earmarks. I am also involved in attempts to improve
the budget process in Maryland. You can access copies of my
recent research in pdf format. I am an appointed member of
the Baltimore
County Council Spending Affordability Committee.
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 the UMBC faculty's Academic
Planning and Budgeting Committee, am the Truman Foundation's
faculty representative for UMBC, and assist the Shriver Center's
summer intershipship programs for the Governor and for MDOT.
Roy T.
Meyers
Professor
Department of Political
Science
UMBC
318 Public Policy Building
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250