POLS 5380 - Public Budgeting and Finance

Meets with POLS 6380. Graduate students should register for POLS 6380 and will be held to higher standards and/or additional work. Organization, techniques, and politics of administrative planning, budget preparation and legislative appropriations, and control systems in public administration. Program budgeting, benefit-cost, and other analytic techniques of public planning and budgeting. Fiscal and monetary policy, nature of capitalism in a mixed economy, problems of labor, agriculture, and the poor.