Nancy Hudspeth is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, California State University, Stanislaus. Her teaching and research interests are in public budgeting and finance, urban planning, equity, and fiscal transparency.

Andrew Crosby is Assistant Professor of Teaching in the School of Public Policy, University of California, Riverside. His research and teaching interests include public budgeting and financial management, intergovernmental relations, and survey methodology. His scholarly work has appeared in Public Budgeting and Finance, the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, Tobacco Control, and other journals. He has previously served as President of the American Society for Public Administration Chicago and New York Metropolitan Chapters.