Roy T. Meyers




Professor, Department of Political Science, and Director, Sondheim Public Affairs Scholars Program

UMBC (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)

Welcome!  Below I give some brief information about my professional background, current activities, recent publications, favorite web sites, and contact info.

I've been teaching at UMBC since 1990.  From 1981-1990, I was an analyst at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).  I took graduate courses in political science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor from 1976-1980, and finished my Michigan PhD in 1988 while at CBO.  My dissertation won the 1989 L.D. White Dissertation Award from the American Political Science Association.  I graduated in 1976 with a degree in government from Colby College, which is located in Waterville, Maine.  I was born and raised in New Jersey.

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. 

A main links page will guide you to information on my courses and many other web sites.

To contact me:

Roy T. Meyers                                              
Professor                                                      
Department of Political Science                      
UMBC                                                          
318 Public Policy Building
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250

email: meyers@umbc.edu

Office:   410-455-2196
Fax:      410-455-1021
Home:  410-381-4755