GEORGE M. GUESS is Associate Professor of Public Administration and Political Science at Georgia State University. He is the author of The Politics of United States Foreign Aid and Cases in Public Policy Analysis. Guess has also written numerous articles appearing in Public Administration Review, Public Budgeting and Finance, Public Administration Quarterly, and International Journal of Public Administration.

• Introduction: Federal Transit Assistance, Management Deregulation, and Local Mobility Needs Elected versus Appointed Boards and Transit Management Effectiveness Local Government Financing of Public Transportation: A Case Study of Georgia Transit Systems Transit Financing: The Case of California Governing and Managing Multimodal Regional Transit Agencies in a Multicentric Era Paying for Public Transportation: The Problem of Operating Deficits at MARTA Financial Forecasting and Annual Budgeting Mass Transit Budgeting The Successful Uses of Decentralized Program Budget in the New York City Transit Authority Monitoring Transit Performance Collective Bargaining in the New York City Transit Authority The Determinants of the Decision to Contract Out Public Transit Services Index

GEORGE M. GUESS is Associate Professor of Public Administration and Political Science at Georgia State University. He is the author of The Politics of United States Foreign Aid and Cases in Public Policy Analysis. Guess has also written numerous articles appearing in Public Administration Review, Public Budgeting and Finance, Public Administration Quarterly, and International Journal of Public Administration.

• Introduction: Federal Transit Assistance, Management Deregulation, and Local Mobility Needs Elected versus Appointed Boards and Transit Management Effectiveness Local Government Financing of Public Transportation: A Case Study of Georgia Transit Systems Transit Financing: The Case of California Governing and Managing Multimodal Regional Transit Agencies in a Multicentric Era Paying for Public Transportation: The Problem of Operating Deficits at MARTA Financial Forecasting and Annual Budgeting Mass Transit Budgeting The Successful Uses of Decentralized Program Budget in the New York City Transit Authority Monitoring Transit Performance Collective Bargaining in the New York City Transit Authority The Determinants of the Decision to Contract Out Public Transit Services Index