Research Projects

Through grants from the National Science Foundation, state agencies, and private foundations, the lab undertakes multi-year research initiatives on different aspects of state and local public budgeting and management. These include municipal fiscal retrenchment and recovery, fiscal health analysis, state and local fiscal and budget rules, revenue diversification and forecasting, performance management and strategic management, fiscal decentralization and local government fragmentation, and democratic institutions and participatory processes for fiscal and budgetary decision making. Below, you will find the links to these research projects. Each page provides information about the questions that a specific project focuses on as well as downloadable publications.