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A Federal Deficit Reduction Simulation: Learning Politics and Policy in a Budgetary Context

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2005

Bruce A. Wallin
Bruce A. Wallin
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Northeastern University
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I must first confess that I was long a skeptic about the use of simulations in the classroom. I had, after all, gotten along quite fine without them. My courses were full, my teaching evaluations good.Bruce A. Wallin is associate professor, department of political science, Northeastern University. He is author of From Revenue Sharing to Deficit Sharing: General Revenue Sharing and Cities (Georgetown University Press, 1998), winner of the 1999 APSA award for Best Book on Urban Politics. Most recently, he edited a symposium on “Tax and Expenditure Limitations: A Quarter Century after Proposition 13,” published in Public Budgeting and Finance (vol. 24, no. 4, winter 2004).For more information on this simulation, including the class syllabus and detailed examples, visit PSOnline at www.apsanet.org/ps/wallinonline.pdf.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 38 , Issue 3 , July 2005 , pp. 407 - 409
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© 2005 The American Political Science Association

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