Establishing an Agenda for Public Budgeting and Finance Research

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-1-2024

Subject: LCSH

Finance, Public--Law and legislation--United States, Preferential ballot, Research

Disciplines

Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration

Abstract

Public budgeting and finance is a discipline that encompasses communities of research and practice. Too often, however, these communities fail to engage each other, instead choosing to operate independently. The result is that the research being conducted fails to address the questions of the day and our governments’ challenges. In this article, we come together as a community of academics and practitioners to establish an agenda for where future research should be conducted. This agenda aims to align the research being undertaken within the academic community with the needs of those working in the community of practice. After establishing ten areas where research is needed, we followed a ranked-choice voting process to establish a prioritization for them. Based on the outcome of this process, the two primary areas where research is currently needed most are the fiscal health of our governments and the implementation of social equity budgeting.

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This article was published open-access in Public Finance Journal, 1(1), 9–28 and can be found here.

*Full author list can be found here.

Corresponding Author: [email protected].

DOI

10.59469/pfj.2024.15

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Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License
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McDonald, B., Larson, S., Maher, C., Kavanagh, S., Hunter, K., Goodman, C., … Zielke, N. (2024). Establishing an Agenda for Public Budgeting and Finance Research. Public Finance Journal, 1(1), 9–28. https://doi.org/10.59469/pfj.2024.15

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