Fall/Winter Timetable
POL423H1S L0101
Graduate Course Code: POL2110H1S L0101
The Politics of Public Monies
Themes
Budgeting is a central task of a political system and shapes the macro-economy. Given this importance, the course provides an overview of the politics of public monies. The course starts with a general understanding on the process of budgeting and then evaluates competing theories of the politics of public monies. Theoretically, it concentrates on the role of individual decision-making, political interests, as well as institutional and economic constraints. Substantively, this course focuses more attention on the expenditure aspect of budgeting but also touch on the principles of revenue-raising. Readings cover the national and sub-national level of government in the developed and developing world. This course has two aims. First, it provides students with knowledge about how budgeting works and how politics shapes budgetary outcomes. Second, it enables students to engage in this subject successfully and stimulatingly.
Preparation
POL 242Y
January 29, 2024
The winners of the 2022-2023 undergraduate awards were announced at the annual celebration, held this year on the evening of January 25. Presiding over the award ceremony were Undergraduate Director...
January 26, 2023
Congratulations to our 2021/22 undergraduate award & scholarship recipients! Following a two-year hiatus, the department was delighted to return to hosting our undergraduate awards in-person this year to celebrate our...
June 3, 2021
In a bid to motivate her students in what has been a very difficult academic year, Professor Rebecca Kingston decided to give those enrolled in the winter 2021 term of...
May 21, 2020
Congratulations to undergraduate student Cheryl Cheung who has received a University of Toronto Excellence Award (UTEA). Going into her third year majoring in political science, with minors in visual studies...
January 29, 2020
Congratulations to all our amazing undergraduate students who picked up one the department’s twenty-three awards and scholarships at our annual undergraduate awards ceremony. In attendance were Dean of Arts &...