Naomi Joy Caiden is a comparative budgeting scholar in the political science department at California State University-Los Angeles where she is now professor emeritus (2010). She coauthored with Aaron Wildavsky, Planning and Budgeting in Poor Countries (1980) followed from 1978 to 1987 by a series of six important articles in Public Administration Review. Other books include revised editions of Wildavsky’s The New Politics of the Budgetary Process (1997) and her book, Public Budgeting and Financial Administration in Developing Countries (1996) which won the Wildavsky best book award from the Policy Studies Organization [PSO]. She was an instructor at the University of Southern California, the University of California campuses at Irvin and Riverside, and at California State University, San Bernardino including chairwoman of the department of public administration. She completed her bachelor’s from the University of London, her M.A. at the Australian National University (1966), and her Ph.D. dissertation on the patterns of budgeting in France (1978) at the University of Southern California which was financed by the Twentieth Century Fund. She was co-editor of Public Budgeting & Finance (1989-1994) and book review editor of Public Administration Review (2005-2009). She received the 1997 Thomas R. Dye Service Award from PSO and AAPBA’s Distinguished Service ‘Blum’ Award (1981 and 1991).