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Product ID: 99332
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Undergraduate
High School

The Budgetary Process: Incrementalism (UMAP)

Author: Thomas W. Likens


With this unit, the student will understand the budgetary process and its outcome, gain a better perspective on modeling political decision-making, use first order linear difference equations to generate time-series, and use the solution of a difference equation to explore the time-dependent character of budgetary expenditures.

Table of Contents:

1. INTRODUCTION

2. BUDGETARY INCREMENTALISM

3. FORMALIZATION

4. ANALYSIS

5. QUESTIONS

6. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS

7. BIBLIOGRAPHY

©1983 by COMAP, Inc.
UMAP Module
16 pages

Mathematics Topics:

Probability & Statistics, Discrete & Finite Mathematics, Differential Equations

Application Areas:

Social Studies, American Politics

Prerequisites:

High school algebra

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