What types of financial analysis might support public managers during the program-spending phase of the budget process? How might you demonstrate the value and uses of such analytic products to a skeptical manager?

 

2) What are the consequences of the Anti-Federalist view for the role administrators play in the public budgeting process? How do these consequences compare with those of the Federalists?

 

3) To what extent do you believe there should be greater public involvement in your local government budgeting process? Why? How would you propose to accomplish greater involvement? To what extent would this compromise the efficiency and closure of the process?

 

4) What are the consequences of having so many local government jurisdictions to meet the needs of citizens? Provide an actual example to help illustrate one of the consequences.

 

5) How do the priorities among various purposes of the budget align with different levels of the organizational structure and with the role responsibilities of those with decision making authority?