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Faculty
Happenings
Roy Meyers
gave an invited talk in Beijing, China in October on the prospects
for a sustainable U.S. budget. He also made the following presentations
this fall: on Federal Budget Challenges, for Congressional staff
with the sponsorship of the Mercatus Institute; on What Academics
Can Teach Practitioners About Budgeting, to the Eastern States Legislative
Fiscal Officers meeting in Annapolis; on Maryland's budget to the
Legacy Leadership Institute; and on the process of setting budget
priorities to the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management.
Roy Meyers
wrote an op-ed published in the Baltimore Sun (linked below) which
argues that Maryland should better educate citizens
about its budget, in order to protect vital services from undesirable
cuts.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.cuts08sep08,0,5323581.story
Exploring the
Schelling Conjecture in Reverse: ‘International Constraints’ and
Cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia,” by Brian Grodsky forthcoming European
Journal of International Relations.
“International Prosecutions and Domestic Politics: The Use of Truth
Commissions as Compromise Justice in Serbia and Croatia,”
by Brian Grodsky forthcoming International Studies Review
11(4) (December 2009).
“Re-Ordering
Justice: Towards A New Methodological Approach to Studying Transitional
Justice," by Brian Grodsky, forthcoming
Journal of Peace Research 46(6) (November 2009).
Roy Meyers made two presentations to the Peterson-Pew Commission
on Federal Budget Reform in January and April. His article
"The 'Ball of Confusion' in Federal Budgeting: A Shadow Agenda for
Deliberative Reform of the Budget Process," was published in the
March 2009 issue of Public Administration Review. He also
had an op-ed on earmarks and the appropriations process published
in
Roll Call, March 24, 2009.
Nicholas
Miller presented a paper (with Joseph Godfrey) “On the Size
and Location of the Yolk in Spatial Voting Games: Results
Using Cybersenate Software” at the Annual Meeting of the Public
Choice Society in Las Vegas, March 5-8 and also to the Harvard-MIT
Positive Political Economy Seminar on March 19, 2009.
“Lessons (Not)
Learned: A New Look at Bureaucratic Politics and US Foreign Policy
Making in the Post-Soviet Space,” by Brian Grodsky, forthcoming
Problems of Post-Communism (March 2009).
“On the Other
Side of the Curtain: A Reassessment of Non-Elite Human Rights Experiences
and Values in Poland,” by Brian Grodsky, forthcoming Human
Rights Review 10(1) (March 2009).
Roy Meyers
gave a presentation on Capitol Hill: "Can the Budget Process Be
Fixed?," sponsored by the Mercatus Center, 1/22/09.
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