Improving Equity through Fiscal Policy

Dashed Dreams
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-67082-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Public Budgeting and Finance

Improving Equity through Fiscal Policy: Dashed Dreams explores the delivery of key services to the public and to what extent equity is considered when government allocates resources. Authors Marc Fudge and Marc Holzer examine the key topics in a typical public budgeting, finance, or policy course including taxation, public choice, and political economics from an equity-based lens.  They then offer a deep dive into the development of US public policies, tackling a complex history of policies written expressly to undermine or suppress the advancement of Blacks and People of Color.  The result is a timely supplement to public budgeting and finance courses that encourages readers to recognize and reckon with the persistence of deep disparities – and the ways in which contemporary public budgeting cannot be understood without considering equity.

The book begins with a discussion of the value of social equity and how it emerged as a critical component of public administration and policy.  It then provides coverage of the economic role of government in society, taxation and its distributional effects, voter suppression, as well as inequities in housing, education, and health.  It further explores the racial wealth gap as well as positive examples of strategies that have helped to support a fairer and more equal allocation of resources. Improving Equity through Fiscal Policy: Dashed Dreams offers instructors, students, policy makers, elected officials, managers, and leaders a critical and necessary re-examination of this important topic.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holzer, Marc

Fudge, Marc K.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Öffentliche Finanzwirtschaft, Besteuerung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Non-Profit-Organisationen, Verbände
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensfinanzen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction  1. An Equity Perspective  2. Government and the Economy  3. Taxation  4. Voter Suppression and Disenfranchisement  5. Healthcare  6. Housing  7. Education  8. Racial Wealth Gap  9. Advancing the Equity Needle Forward

Über Autor(innen)

Marc Fudge is a professor in the Department of Public Administration at California State University, San Bernardino. His research focuses on public finance, equity & justice, and performance management. His work appears in the Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management, Public Financial Management, the Journal of International Finance and Economics, and several other publications. He currently serves on the California State University President's Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Board and he is the director of the Center on Fiscal Policy & Innovation. He is a former President of the Conference of Minority Public Administrators (COMPA) and the former Chair of the Section on Public Performance and Management.

Marc Holzer is Distinguished Research Professor at Suffolk University, Boston. He is Emeritus Professor and was Founding Dean of the School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers University-Newark. Professor Holzer is extensively published, is a Past President of the American Society for Public Administration and is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.