Josephine M Laplante
Biographic Data
| ID | 1488181 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Josephine M Laplante |
| GIVEN NAMES | Josephine M |
| FAMILY NAME | Laplante |
| SIGNATURE | LAPLANTE J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Maine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Seven habits of unsustainable budget building
The magnitude and immediacy of threats to the sustainability of state government programs call for significant changes in how we think about and make policies that influence the public budget. The Great Recession's prolonged battering of state budgets exhausted cutback strategies and has left policy makers with few options, producing a decision gridlock that is inescapable using traditional functional and line-item budget perspectives and embedde…
Symposium introduction
In this introductory essay, the authors describe a new public finance characterized by enduring revenue constraints; mounting budgetary claims from accruing liabilities for post-retirement benefits for government employees, rising health care costs, and an aging population; and uncertainty about future budgetary demands and resource limitations. The new public finance is described as a convergence of economic and demographic forces with past prac…
Beyond the storm
Research Methods Education for Public Sector Careers
As the world rapidly becomes more complex, there is a greater need for tools of research and data analysis to assist the public administrator. While many university programs recognize this need and include several methodology courses in their curriculum, there is little evidence that students are taking this knowledge into the field. In this article, the need for usable methodology courses are stressed. The first section of this article is dedica…
Shaping State‐based Financial Policy in an Era of Chance
Factors Associated with Financial-Decision Support Systems in State Government
This exploratory study examines factors which influence the use of computerized information systems in state financial management. Perennial and evolving questions in both the management information and fiscal/budgeting processes require further examination given the central position of states in the intergovernmental system. Common assumptions concerning the linkages between managerial, contextual, and information systems are in need of empirica…
Factors Associated with Financial-Decision Support Systems in State Government
This exploratory study examines factors which influence the use of computerized information systems in state financial management. Perennial and evolving questions in both the management information and fiscal/budgeting processes require further examination given the central position of states in the intergovernmental system. Common assumptions concerning the linkages between managerial, contextual, and information systems are in need of empirica…
Factors Associated with Financial-Decision Support Systems in State Government
This exploratory study examines factors which influence the use of computerized information systems in state financial management. Perennial and evolving questions in both the management information and fiscal/budgeting processes require further examination given the central position of states in the intergovernmental system. Common assumptions concerning the linkages between managerial, contextual, and information systems are in need of empirica…
Shaping State‐based Financial Policy in an Era of Chance
Research Methods Education for Public Sector Careers
As the world rapidly becomes more complex, there is a greater need for tools of research and data analysis to assist the public administrator. While many university programs recognize this need and include several methodology courses in their curriculum, there is little evidence that students are taking this knowledge into the field. In this article, the need for usable methodology courses are stressed. The first section of this article is dedica…
Seven habits of unsustainable budget building
The magnitude and immediacy of threats to the sustainability of state government programs call for significant changes in how we think about and make policies that influence the public budget. The Great Recession's prolonged battering of state budgets exhausted cutback strategies and has left policy makers with few options, producing a decision gridlock that is inescapable using traditional functional and line-item budget perspectives and embedde…
Symposium introduction
In this introductory essay, the authors describe a new public finance characterized by enduring revenue constraints; mounting budgetary claims from accruing liabilities for post-retirement benefits for government employees, rising health care costs, and an aging population; and uncertainty about future budgetary demands and resource limitations. The new public finance is described as a convergence of economic and demographic forces with past prac…
Beyond the storm
Political science (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Finance (3 works) · Local Government Finance and Decentralization (3 works) · Macroeconomics (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Economic growth (2 works)