[...]... a program where a course in public economics is not offered The primary goal of this book is to contribute to the use and understanding of public economics and its role in public administration, public policy, and decision making The book exposes students of public policy and administration to a wide array of current issues surrounding the public provision and production of goods and services Three...Preface The Handbook of Public Sector Economics is first and foremost a textbook for graduate students in public administration and public policy Although most handbooks are used as reference texts, this particular handbook was proposed and written as a textbook to be used as the primary book in a graduate public economics course or an important secondary or supplementary book in a public finance or public. .. the areas of public finance policy and management, public budgeting, applied economics, and transportation He has been published in a number of journals including Public Budgeting & Finance, State and Local Government Review, and Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, and he is the editor of the book Evolving Theories of Public Budgeting (2001) His doctorate is from the School of Public. .. number of public policy issues, the role of the nonprofit sector in the U.S economy, and the history of thought in economics Carol Ebdon is an associate professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Nebraska at Omaha She received a Ph.D in public administration from the University at Albany, State University of New York Her primary research and teaching interests are in the areas of. .. Dispute Resolution Journal of the American Arbitration Association), International Journal of Public Administration, Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management, Policy Studies Journal, Public Administration Quarterly, Public Administration Review, Public Budgeting and Finance, Public Performance and Management Review, Public Personnel Management, and Review of Public Personnel Administration... also written chapters in the Handbook of Comparative and Development Administration (2nd edition) and the Handbook of Bureaucracy, both published by Marcel Dekker Trogen has a Ph.D in public administration from Florida State University (1995), with a concentration in public financial management William Voorhees is an assistant professor of public finance in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State... Contents PART I 1 Introduction to Public Economics and Fiscal Doctrine The Evolution of Economics: The Search for a Theory of Value 3 Lynn C Burbridge 2 Basic Economics of Fiscal Decentralization 87 William Voorhees 3 Voting and Representative Democracy 109 Jane Beckett-Camarata 4 Bureaucracy and Bureaucrats 141 Patricia Moore xvii xviii Robbins PART II 5 Theory of Public Goods Public Goods 169 Paul C Trogen... Journal of Conflict Resolution, Policy Studies Journal, Policy Sciences, Ecological Economics, International Organization, Review of International Economics, and American Journal of Political Science Donijo Robbins is associate professor for the School of Public and Nonprofit Administration at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in public. .. (1994) in economics and political science from Central Michigan University and a M.A degree (1995) in economics and a Ph.D degree (1998) in public administration from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in Newark Paul C Trogen is assistant professor of public finance at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee His teaching interests include public finance, budgeting, public organizations,... alone, the flow of the book was put together in such a way that the first two parts establish the foundation of public economics In addition, each part substantiates the aforementioned reasons for this book Part I introduces public economics, fiscal doctrine, and the role of democracy and bureaucracy within the economic framework Lynn C Burbridge begins, in Chapter 1, with the history of economics and . h1" alt="" Handbook of Public Sector Economics DK3644_half 01/25/2005 9:45 AM Page i PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND PUBLIC POLICY A Comprehensive Publication. Eran Vigoda-Gadot 111. Handbook of Public Information Systems, Second Edition, edited by G. David Garson 112. Handbook of Public Sector Economics, edited by