RECENT RESEARCH

MarylandReporter.com commentary on Maryland budget polling

"Prospects for a Sustainable Budgetary Policy in the United States", International Conference on Financial Crisis and Macroeconomic Control, sponsored by the School of Public Finance and Taxation, Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing, China, October 17, 2009.

Slides for "The 'Missing Middle' of the Federal Budget Process: Priority-Setting," to Association for Budgeting and Financial Management, September 24, 2009, Washington, D.C.

Coming soon: revised version of presentation to Eastern States Legislative Fiscal Officers: "What Can Academics Teach Practitioners About Budgeting?"

Op-ed (or here) in Baltiomore Sun on educating the public about the state's budget, Septermber 8, 2009

Presentation to Peterson-Pew Budget Reform Commission on structural reform of the federal budget process, April 1, 2009 (no foolin'!)

Op-ed on using a deal on earmarks to encourage timely passage of appropriations bills, Roll Call, Tuesday March 24, 2009, p. A4.

Presentation to Peterson-Pew Budget Reform Commission on their agenda, February 20. 2009

Presentation on Capitol Hill: "Can the Budget Process Be Fixed?," sponsored by the Mercatus Center, 1/22/09.

"The 'Ball of Confusion' in Federal Budgeting: A Shadow Agenda for Deliberative Reform of the Budget Process," Public Administration Review, 69:2, March 2009, pp. 211-223.  Copyright American Society for Public Administration, published by Blackwell Publishing.  Drawn from the plenary presentation at the annual conference of the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management, Chicago, IL, October 24, 2008.

"Governance Ideas for and from the 'Knowledge Banks'," book review essay in Public Administration Review, 69: January 2009, pp. 167-171.

Increasing Budgetary Democracy and Flexibility, part of an exchange on the effects of the budget powers set out in the Maryland Constitution, from Maryland Policy Reports, Maryland Budget and Tax Policy Institute, June 2008.

Testimony on two Maryland budget process bills, February 2008.

The Remarkable Case of the Disappearing (?) Earmarks, presented at the annual conference of the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management, 2007.

Commentary (invited), on Fred Thompson and Bruce L. Gates, “Betting on the Future with a Cloudy Crystal Ball? Revenue Forecasting, Financial Theory, and Budgets--An Expanded Treatment,” Public Administration Review, Theory to Practice, September/October 2007, pp. 74-80.

Addressing Maryland’s Structural Deficit through Better Performance Budgeting and Priority-Setting, UMBC Policy Brief 5, June 2007.

"European Budget Institutions", Public Administration Review, 2006, 66:6, November, 935-938. Copyright American Society for Public Administration, published by Blackwell Publishing.

“The Return of Budget Deficits in the United States”, Public Administration Review, 2006, 66: 2, March, pp. 294-7.  Copyright American Society for Public Administration, published by Blackwell Publishing.

Congressional Budgeting at Age 30: Is It Worth Saving?", with Philip G. Joyce.  Public Budgeting and Finance, 2005, Silver Anniversary Issue, pp. 68-82.  Copyright Public Financial Publications, Inc., published by Blackwell Publishing.

See also at original source book review essay: Jerry L. McCaffery and L.R. Jones, Budgeting and Financial Management for National Defense, Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing, 2004; and ibid, Budgeting and Financial Management in the Federal Government, 2001; for International Public Management Journal, 8: 2, pp. 289-292.


PDF files of remarks and slides for "It's Time for a Second Commission on Budget Concepts," presented at the Third Annual Congressional Budget Office Director's Conference, Russell Senate Caucus Room, September 14, 2004

PDF file of testimony on SB 381, sponsor Senator Jones, Managing for Results and the budget prioritization process in Maryland, March 23, 2004

HTM file of testimony on HB 1247, sponsor Delegate Branch (crossfile SB 370, sponsor Senator Hogan), Constitutional Amendment on Additions to the Operating Budget, House Appropriations Committee, Maryland General Assembly, March 9, 2004

PDF file of How Can Maryland's Budget Process Be Improved?, coauthored with Thomas S. Pilkerton, September 2003, Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research.  Accompanying spreadsheet of Oregon-Style Measures for Maryland.

PDF file of Budgeting during the Clinton Presidency, coauthored with Philip G. Joyce, Public Budgeting and Finance, 21: Spring 2001, pp. 1-21. (Posted to this page with the permission of Blackwell Publishers)

PDF file of testimony before the House Rules Committee on biennial budgeting, March 16, 2000.

 

PDF file of paper “Legislative Budgeting in Mexico: Aspirations and Choices” for the Conference on Reform of the State: Budgeting and Public Spending in Mexico, January 27, 2000, sponsored by Centro de Investigatión y Docencia Económicas and Camara de Diputados, Government of Mexico.

PDF file of comments at the Opening Plenary of the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management, October 7, 1999, Washington, D.C., on the topic of "Federal Budget Structure and Concepts for a New Millenium: Revolt, Reform, or Renewal?"

PDF file of paper written for the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Mary Lasker Trust: "Federal Financing for Medical Research Through Trust Funds and Entitlements", February 15, 1999.

PDF file of page proofs for article in Policy Sciences, "Regulatory Budgeting: A Bad Idea Whose Time Has Come?"
31: December 1998, pp. 371-384.

Handbook of Government Budgeting
 
 

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