Feb 03, 2025  
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

PA 524 - Politics of Public Budgeting


Offered Fall: No Offered Winter: No Offered Summer: No Offered Other: No
Credits: 2
Hours (Lecture/Discussion/Lab): 2-0-0
Graded: A/F

Prerequisites: Admission to the MPA program or permission of instructor
Co-requisites: None

The historical, institutional and political context of public budgeting in the U.S. Examines both the characteristics of the budgetary process, as well as the main substantive issues involved in the assembly of contemporary budgets at the local, state and federal levels. In addition, the political self-interest, norms, and roles and behaviors of various budgetary players will be discussed and the impact of their actions on budgetary dynamics and public policy will be explored.