Lance Theodore LeLoup, [1949-July 23, 2009] was vice provost and Edward R. Meyer Distinguished Professor of political science at Washington State University and one of the most recognized scholars of budgeting. His thirteen books and more than fifty articles showcase a scholar of budgetary politics focusing on institutions and policy. He received his bachelor’s from Georgetown University (1970) and his Master’s and Ph.D. from Ohio State University (1973). After working with the Ohio State Senate, he joined the political science faculty at the University of Missouri-St. Louis (1974-1996), serving as departmental chairman and director of the public policy research center, before joining the Washington State University political science faculty as department chair (1996-2001) where he held distinguished professorships including Regents Professor until retirement (2000-2009). His books include The Fiscal Congress (1980), Budgetary Politics (1986), The President and Congress (2002), Parties, Rules, and the Evolution of Congressional Budgeting (2005), and Comparative Public Budgeting (2010). He held visiting positions at the University of Bordeaux-Montesquieu, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, L’Université Catholique de l’Ouest, Angers, France, and Hungary’s Budapest University.