What’s Wrong and What Should Be Done?

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsDennis E. GaleDennis E. Gale is a professor of public administration and director of the Joseph C. Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. Contact: dgale@andromeda.rutgers.edu.Jerry A. GianakisJerry A. Gianakis is an associate professor of public management at Suffolk University’s Sawyer School of Management. and he is the coauthor of Local Government Budgeting: A Managerial Approach. Contact: ggianaki@acad.suffolk.eduIrene RubinIrene Rubin is a professor in the public administration division of Northern Illinois University. She is author of The Politics of Public Budgeting and Class Tax and Power (Chatham House) andformer editor of Public Budgeting and Finance and Public Administration Review. Contact: irubin@niu.eduDoris MartinDoris Martin, revenue administrator for the city of Knoxville, Tennessee, for 11 years, has a master’s degree in public administration from Florida State University. She has worked in local government finance for 17 years. Contact: doti@ci.knoxville.tn.usSheldon PresserSheldon Presser is an assistant director, Fiscal and Management Operations, New Jersey Division o/Youth and Family Services. Contact: P.O. Box 717, Trenton, NJ 08625-0717; e-mail: spresser@dhs.state.nj.us