Core Books and Readings in Public Policy

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1 Core Books and Readings in Public Policy Books Bardach, E. A practical guide for policy analysis : the eightfold path to more effective problem solving. 4th ed. Los Angeles, Thousand Oaks: Sage CQ Press, Dye, T.R. Understanding public policy. 14th ed. Boston: Pearson, Hill, M.J. and P.L. Hupe. Implementing public policy : an introduction to the study of operational governance. 3rd ed. Los Angeles i.e. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications, Howlett, M. Designing public policies : principles and instruments, Routledge textbooks in policy studies. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge, Kingdon, J.W. Agendas, alternatives, and public policies. Updated 2nd ed, Longman classics in political science. Boston: Longman, Peters, B.G. Advanced introduction to public policy, Elgar advanced introductions series. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Pub., American public policy : promise and performance. 9th ed. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: CQ Press, Sabatier, P.A. and C.M. Weible. Theories of the policy process. Third edition. ed. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, a member of the Persus Books Group, Salamon, L.M. and O.V. Elliott. The tools of government : a guide to the new governance. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, Stone, D. Policy paradox : the art of political decision making. 3rd ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Theodoulou, S.Z. and M.A. Cahn. Public policy : the essential readings. 2nd ed. Boston: Pearson, Additional Readings I. Overview of Public Policy as a Field of Study Allison, Graham T The Essence of Decision. Boston: Little, Brown. Burstein, Paul Policy Domains: Organization, Culture, and Policy Outcomes. In W. Richard Scott and Judith Blake (eds.), Annual Review of Sociology. Volume 17. Palo Alto, Calif.: Annual Reviews, Inc. Jasanoff, Sheila The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Latin, Howard Good Science, Bad Regulation, and Toxic Risk Assessment. Yale Journal on Regulation 5: Lindblom, Charles The Science of Muddling Through. Public Administration Review. 19: Madsen, Peter, and Jay M. Shafritz (eds.) Essentials of Government Ethics. New York: Meridian/Penguin. Meltsner, Arnold J Policy Analysts in the Bureaucracy. Berkeley: University of California Press.

2 Meltsner, Arnold Political Feasibility and Policy Analysis. Public Administration Review 32: Quade, Edward S Analysis for Public Decisions. Third Edition. New York: North Holland. Rhodes, Stephen E The Economist s View of the World: Government, Markets, and Public Policy. New York: Cambridge University. Riker, William The Place of Political Science in Public Choice. Public Choice 57: Schelling, Thomas Economic Reasoning and the Ethics of Policy. The Public Interest 63: Tong, Rosemarie The Role of the Expert in a Democratic Society. Pp in Ethics in Policy Analysis. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall. Webber, David Analyzing Political Feasibility: Political Scientists Unique Contribution to Policy Analysis. Policy Studies Journal 14: Weiss, Carol H Social Science Research and Decision making. New York: Columbia University Press. Weiss, Carol H Organizations for Policy Analysis: Helping Government Think. Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage. Wildavsky, Aaron Speaking Truth to Power: The Art and Craft of Policy Analysis. Second Edition. Transaction Books. II. Policy Processes A. Agenda Setting(Including Problem Definition) Baumgartner, Frank R., and Bryan D. Jones Agenda Dynamics and Policy Subsystems. Journal of Politics 53: Dery, David What is a Problem, so that it May be Usefully Defined? and Social Problems as Opportunities for Improvement. Pp in Problem Definition in Policy Analysis. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. Edelman, Murray Constructing the Political Spectacle. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Kemp, Kathleen A Accidents, Scandals, and Political Support for Regulatory Agencies. Journal of Politics 46: Kingdon, John W Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies. Boston: Little, Brown. Reinarman, Craig The Social Construction of an Alcohol Problem: The Case of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers and Social in the 1980s. Theory and Society 17: Schneider, Anne, and Helen Ingram Social Construction of Target Populations: Implications for Politics and Policy. American Political Science Review 87: Stallings, Robert A Media Discourse and the Social Construction of Risk. Social Problems 37: B. Formulation(Within Political and Institutional Settings) Baron, David P Majoritarian Incentives, Pork Barrel Programs, and Procedural Controls. American Journal of Political Science 35: Becker, Gary A Theory of Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence. Quarterly Journal of Economics 98:

3 Bernstein, Marver H Regulating Business by Independent Commission. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Cone, Kenneth R. and David Dranove Why Did States Enact Hospital Rate-Setting Laws. Journal of Law and Economics 29: Dahl, Robert Who Governs? New Haven, Conn.: Yale Dahl, Robert Dilemmas of Pluralist Democracy. New Haven, Conn.: Yale Denzau, Arthur T., and Michael C. Munger Legislators and Interest Groups: How Unorganized Interests Get Represented. American Political Science Review 80: Downs, Anthony An Economic Theory of Democracy. New York: Harper and Row. Domhoff, G. William Who Rules America Now?: A View for the 80s. New York: Simon and Schuster. Domhoff, G. William The Power Elite and the State: How Policy is Made in America. Hawthorne, N.Y.: Aldine de Gruyter Downs, George W., and Patrick D. Larkey Business Versus Government: An Invidious Comparison? in The Search for Government Efficiency. New York: Random House. Dye, Thomas Politics, Economics and the Public. Chicago: Rand McNally. Ferejohn, John, Morris Fiorina, and Richard D. McKelvey Sophisticated Voting and Agenda Independence in Distributive Politics Settings. American Journal of Political Science 31: Glazer, Nathan Toward an Imperial Judiciary. The Public Interest 41: Graddy, Elizabeth Interest Groups or the Public Interest Why Do We Regulate Health Occupations? Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 16: Grindle, Merilee S., and John W. Thomas Policy Makers, Policy Choices, and Policy Outcomes: The Political Economy of Reform in Developing Countries. Policy Sciences 22: Kau, James B., and Paul H. Rubin Self Interest, Ideology, and Logrolling in Congressional Voting. Journal of Law and Economics 22: Jenkins-Smith, Hank C., Gilbert K. St.Clair, and Brian Woods Explaining Change in Policy Subsystems: Analysis of Coalition Stability and Defection over Time. American Journal of Political Science 35: Kalt, Joseph, and Mark Zupan Capture and Ideology in the Economic Theory of Politics. American Economic Review 74: Kramer, Gerald H Sophisticated Voting Over Multidimensional Choice Spaces. Journal of Mathematical Sociology 2: Kurland, Philip B Public Policy, the Constitution, and the Supreme Court. Northern Kentucky Law Review 12: Manley, John F Neo-Pluralism: A Class Analysis of Pluralism I and Pluralism II. American Political Science Review 77: Mills, C. Wright The Power Elite. New York: Oxford University Press, Olson, Mancur, Jr The Logic of Collective Action. Second Edition. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard

4 Polsby, Nelson Community Power and Political Theory. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, Riker, William H The Theory of Political Coalitions. New Haven: Yale Romer, Thomas, and Howard Rosenthal Bureaucrats vs. Voters: On the Political Economy of Resource Allocation in a Direct Democracy. Quarterly Journal of Economics Skocpol, Theda States and Social Revolutions. New York: Cambridge Walker, Jack L., Jr Mobilizing Interest Groups in America: Patrons, Professions, and Social Movements. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Wright, Gerald C. Jr., Robert S. Erickson, and John P. McIver Public Opinion and Policy Liberalism in the American States. American Journal of Political Science 31: C. Policy Implementation(Organizational and Political Dimensions) Alchian, Armen A., and Harold Demsetz Production, Information Costs, and Economic Organization. American Economic Review 62: Aldrich, Howard E., and Peter V. Marsden Environments and Organizations. Pp in Neil J. Smelser (ed.), Handbook of Sociology. Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage. Bardach, Eugene The Implementation Game. Cambridge: MIT Press. Cohen, Michael D., James G. March, and Johan P. Olsen A Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice. Administrative Science Quarterly 17:1-25. Commons, John R Institutional Economics. New York: Macmillan. DiMaggio, Paul J., and Walter W. Powell The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields. American Sociological Review 48: Dranove, David, and William D. White Agency and the Organization of Health Care Delivery. Inquiry 24: Eisenhardt, Kathleen M Agency Theory: An Assessment and Review. Academy of Management Review 14: Elmore, Richard Organizational Models of Social Program Implementation. Public Policy 26: Elmore, Richard Backward Mapping: Implementation Research and Policy Decisions. Political Science Quarterly 94: Goggin, Malcolm L., Ann Bowman, James P. Lester, and Laurence J. O Toole, Jr Implementation Theory and Practice: Toward a Third Generation. Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman/Little, Brown. Hannan, Michael T., and John Freeman Organizational Ecology. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Hekathorn, Douglas D., and Steven M. Maser Bargaining and the Sources of Transaction Costs: The Case of Government Regulation. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 3: Hill, Jeffrey S., and James E. Brazier Constraining Administrative Decisions: A Critical Examination of the Structure and Process Hypothesis. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organizations 7:

5 Ingram, Helen Policy Implementation through Bargaining: The Case of Federal Grants in Aid. Public Policy 25: Jensen, Michael C., and William Meckling Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs, and Ownership Structure. Journal of Financial Economics 3: Knoke, David Organizing for Collective Action: The Political Economies of Associations. Hawthorne, N.Y.: Aldine de Gruyter. Landau, Martin On the Concept of a Self Correcting Organization. Public Administration Review Nov/Dec: Laumann, Edward O., and David Knoke The Organizational State: Social Choice in National Policy Domains. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. Levin, Martin, and Barbara Ferman The Political Hand: Policy Implementation and Youth Employment Programs. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 5: Lipsky, Michael Street Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Service. New York: Russell Sage. Lynxwiler, John, Neal Shover, and Donald A. Clelland The Organization and Impact of Inspector Discretion in a Regulatory Bureaucracy. Social Problems 30: McCubbins, Matthew D., Roger G. Noll, and Barry R. Weingast Administrative Procedures as Instruments of Political Control. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 3: March, James G. and Johan P. Olsen The New Institutionalism: Organizational Factors in Political Life. American Political Science Review 78: Mazmanian, Daniel, and Paul Sabatier Implementation and Public Policy. Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman. Meyer, John W., and Brian Rowan Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony. American Journal of Sociology 83: Moe, Terry The New Economics of Organizations. American Journal of Political Science 28: Nakamura, Robert T., and Frank Smallwood The Politics of Policy Implementation. New York: St. Martin s Press. Ouchi, William Markets, Bureaucracy and Clans. Administrative Science Quarterly 25: Pfeffer, Jeffrey, and Gerald Salancik The External Control of Organizations: A Resource Dependence Perspective. New York: Harper and Row. Pressman, Jeffrey, and Aaron Wildavsky Implementation. Third Edition. Berkeley: University of California Press. Scholz, John T Cooperative Regulatory Enforcement and the Politics of Administrative Effectiveness. American Political Science Review 85: Scholz, John T., Jim Twombly, and Barbara Headrick Street Level Political Controls over Federal Bureaucracy. American Political Science Review 85: Scott, W. Richard Organizations: Rational, Natural, and Open Systems. Third Edition. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall. Simon, Herbert A Organizations and Markets. Journal of Economic Perspectives 5:25 44.

6 Weber, Max Economy and Society. Three Volumes. Berkeley: University of California Press. Weingast, Barry R., and Mark J. Moran Bureaucracy and Discretionary Congressional Control: Regulatory Policymaking by the Federal Trade Commission. Journal of Political Economy 91: Williamson, Oliver E The Economics of Organization: The Transaction Cost Approach. American Journal of Sociology 87: Wilson, James Q Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It. New York: Basic Books. Wolf, Charles Jr A Theory of Nonmarket Failure: Framework for Implementation Analysis. Journal of Law and Economics 22: Wood, B. Dan, and Richard W. Waterman The Dynamics of Political Control of the Bureaucracy. American Political Science Review 85(September), III. Analysis of Policy Options A. Policy Instruments and Market and Non-Market Failures Arrow, Kenneth J Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care. American Economic Review 53: Bailey, Elizabeth E., and William J. Baumol Deregulation and the Theory of Contestable Markets. Yale Journal on Regulation 1: Barr, Nicholas Social Insurance as an Efficiency Device. Journal of Public Policy 9: Boardman, Anthony E., and Aidan R. Vining Ownership and Performance in Competitive Environments: A Comparison of the Performance of Private, Mixed, and State owned Enterprises. Journal of Law and Economics 32:1 33. Cordes, Joseph J. and Burton A. Weisbrod When Government Programs Create Inequities: A Guide to Compensation Policies. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 4: Church, Thomas W., and Milton Heumann The Underexamined Assumptions of the Invisible Hand: Monetary Incentives as Policy Instruments. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 8: Ellickson, Robert C Alternatives to Zoning: Covenants, Nuisance Rules, and Fines as Land Use Controls. University of Chicago Law Review 40: Elkin, Stephen L., and Brian J. Cook The Public Life of Economic Incentives. Policy Studies Journal 13: Fisher, Anthony C., John V. Krutilla, and Charles J. Cicchetti The Economics of Environmental Preservation: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis. American Economic Review 62: Goldberg, Victor Regulation and Administered Contracts. Bell Journal of Economics 7: Hansmann, Henry B The Role of Nonprofit Enterprise. Yale Law Journal 89: Landes, William M. and Richard A. Posner A Positive Economic Analysis of Products Liability. Journal of Legal Studies 14: Linder, Stephen H., and B. Guy Peters Instruments of Government: Perceptions and Contexts. Journal of Public Policy 9:35 58.

7 Peltzman, Sam Toward a More General Theory of Regulation. Journal of Law and Economics 19: Salamon, Lester (ed.) Beyond Privatization: The Tools of Government Action. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute Press. Sappington, David E.M., and Joseph E. Stiglitz Privatization, Information, and Incentives. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 6: Tobin, James On Limiting the Domain of Inequality. Journal of Law and Economics 13: Vickers, John, and George Yarrow Economic Perspectives on Privatization. Journal of Economic Perspectives 5: Vining, Aidan R., and David L. Weimer Government Supply and Government Production Failure: A Framework Based on Contestability. Journal of Public Policy 10:1 22. Weimer, David, and Aidan Vining Policy Analysis: Concepts and Practice. Second Edition. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall. Wolf, Charles Jr Markets or Governments: Choosing Between Imperfect Alternatives. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. B. Microeconomic Models Friedman, Lee S Microeconomic Policy Analysis. New York: McGraw Hill. C. Benefit Cost Analysis Gramlich, Edward M A Guide to Cost Benefit Analysis. Second Edition. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall. Kelman, Steven Cost Benefit Analysis: An Ethical Critique. Pp in John Martin Gillroy and Maurice Wade (eds.), The Moral Dimensions of Public Policy Choice: Beyond the Market Paradigm. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. D. Evaluation Research(Including Research Design) Ferber, Robert, and Werner Z. Hirsch Social Experimentation and Economic Policy. New York: Cambridge Langbein, Laura Irwin Discovering Whether Programs Work: A Guide to Statistical Methods for Program Eevaluation. Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman, O Sullivan, Elizabethann, and Gary R. Rassel Research Methods for Public Administrators. Second Edition. New York: Longman. Weiss, Carol H Evaluation Research: Methods for Assessing Program Effectiveness. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall.