Allen Schick is a governance fellow of the Brookings Institution and also a professor of political science at the Maryland School of Public Policy of University of Maryland, College Park.^[1] He is known as an authority on budget theory and the federal budget process, in particular. His book, Congress and Money: Budgeting, Spending, and Taxing, won the D.B. Hardeman Prize in 1982.

Schick advises members of Congress and has conducted numerous studies on budget systems and policies; public management; and government finance.

He is the founding editor of the professional journal, Public Budgeting and Finance.^[1]

Publications

• Congress and Money: Spending, Taxing, and Budgeting, American Society for Public Administration, 1987
• Making Economic Policy in Congress, American Enterprise Institute, 1984
• The Capacity to Budget, 1990
• The Budget Puzzle, 1993
• The Federal Budget: Politics, Policy, Process, 1995
• Budget Innovation in the States, 1972^[2]