Public budgeting is inherently political. In The Politics of Public Budgeting, author Irene S. Rubin lays out the actors involved–interest groups, public officials, legislators, and the pu
Retired sociologist Rubin has collected 35 papers published largely over the last quarter century from journals affiliated with the American Society for Public Administration that she feels address th
This revised edition of a well-known and widely used text in community organizing and development fully examines the broad and changing political and social settings that influence actions; while port
This update of the 2004 and 1995 editions introduces the theory and practice of the now more-widely accepted naturalistic method of qualitative interviewing. A new chapter describes modifications of t
