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Benefiting from the authors' many years of teaching undergraduate and graduate students and practitioners, here is a clear, comprehensive, practice-oriented text for public budgeting courses. Rather than presenting each budgeting concern in mind-numbing detail, the book offers a commonsensical view of public budgeting and its importance to current and future public managers. The text is designed to show readers how managers relate to budgeting and how their actions make a difference in the operation and performance of public organizations. The book covers the historical development of public b.

The vast majority of local-government managers are married to spouses who are employed outside the home, and one-fourth of these two-income couples are "dual career," meaning that both spouses are committed to lifelong professional development. A national survey shows that local-government managers from dual-career marriages are more likely than other managers to consider their spouses' employment potential when deciding whether, and where, to relocate. These results confirm other research showing that dual-career couples are often reluctant to be transferred or move to new jobs because it is difficult to accommodate the careers of both spouses. Public administrators need to consider these findings when designing recruitment and retention policies.