Core Books and Readings in Public Policy

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, 2012. Dye, T.R. Understanding public policy. 14th ed. Boston: Pearson, 2013. 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, 2014. Howlett, M. Designing public policies : principles and instruments, Routledge textbooks in policy studies. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge, 2011. Kingdon, J.W. Agendas, alternatives, and public policies. Updated 2nd ed, Longman classics in political science. Boston: Longman, 2011. Peters, B.G. Advanced introduction to public policy, Elgar advanced introductions series. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Pub., 2015. ---. American public policy : promise and performance. 9th ed. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: CQ Press, 2013. 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, 2014. Salamon, L.M. and O.V. Elliott. The tools of government : a guide to the new governance. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Stone, D. Policy paradox : the art of political decision making. 3rd ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2012. Theodoulou, S.Z. and M.A. Cahn. Public policy : the essential readings. 2nd ed. Boston: Pearson, 2013. Additional Readings I. Overview of Public Policy as a Field of Study Allison, Graham T. 1971. The Essence of Decision. Boston: Little, Brown. Burstein, Paul. 1991. 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. 1990. The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Latin, Howard. 1988. Good Science, Bad Regulation, and Toxic Risk Assessment. Yale Journal on Regulation 5:89 148. Lindblom, Charles. 1957. The Science of Muddling Through. Public Administration Review. 19:79 88. Madsen, Peter, and Jay M. Shafritz (eds.) 1992. Essentials of Government Ethics. New York: Meridian/Penguin. Meltsner, Arnold J. 1976. Policy Analysts in the Bureaucracy. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Meltsner, Arnold. 1972. Political Feasibility and Policy Analysis. Public Administration Review 32:859 867. Quade, Edward S. 1989. Analysis for Public Decisions. Third Edition. New York: North Holland. Rhodes, Stephen E. 1985. The Economist s View of the World: Government, Markets, and Public Policy. New York: Cambridge University. Riker, William. 1988. The Place of Political Science in Public Choice. Public Choice 57:247 259. Schelling, Thomas. 1981. Economic Reasoning and the Ethics of Policy. The Public Interest 63:37 61. Tong, Rosemarie. 1986. The Role of the Expert in a Democratic Society. Pp. 39 61 in Ethics in Policy Analysis. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall. Webber, David. 1980. Analyzing Political Feasibility: Political Scientists Unique Contribution to Policy Analysis. Policy Studies Journal 14:545 553. Weiss, Carol H. 1980. Social Science Research and Decision making. New York: Columbia University Press. Weiss, Carol H. 1991. Organizations for Policy Analysis: Helping Government Think. Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage. Wildavsky, Aaron. 1987. 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. 1991. Agenda Dynamics and Policy Subsystems. Journal of Politics 53:1044 1074. Dery, David. 1984. What is a Problem, so that it May be Usefully Defined? and Social Problems as Opportunities for Improvement. Pp. 21 36 in Problem Definition in Policy Analysis. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. Edelman, Murray. 1988. Constructing the Political Spectacle. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Kemp, Kathleen A. 1984. Accidents, Scandals, and Political Support for Regulatory Agencies. Journal of Politics 46:401 427. Kingdon, John W. 1984. Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies. Boston: Little, Brown. Reinarman, Craig. 1988. The Social Construction of an Alcohol Problem: The Case of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers and Social in the 1980s. Theory and Society 17:91 120. Schneider, Anne, and Helen Ingram. 1993. Social Construction of Target Populations: Implications for Politics and Policy. American Political Science Review 87:334 347. Stallings, Robert A. 1990. Media Discourse and the Social Construction of Risk. Social Problems 37:80 95. B. Formulation(Within Political and Institutional Settings) Baron, David P. 1991. Majoritarian Incentives, Pork Barrel Programs, and Procedural Controls. American Journal of Political Science 35:57 90. Becker, Gary. 1983. A Theory of Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence. Quarterly Journal of Economics 98:371 400.

Bernstein, Marver H. 1955. Regulating Business by Independent Commission. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Cone, Kenneth R. and David Dranove. 1986. Why Did States Enact Hospital Rate-Setting Laws. Journal of Law and Economics 29:287 302. Dahl, Robert. 1962. Who Governs? New Haven, Conn.: Yale Dahl, Robert. 1982. Dilemmas of Pluralist Democracy. New Haven, Conn.: Yale Denzau, Arthur T., and Michael C. Munger. 1986. Legislators and Interest Groups: How Unorganized Interests Get Represented. American Political Science Review 80: Downs, Anthony. 1958. An Economic Theory of Democracy. New York: Harper and Row. Domhoff, G. William. 1983. Who Rules America Now?: A View for the 80s. New York: Simon and Schuster. Domhoff, G. William. 1990. 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. 1986. Business Versus Government: An Invidious Comparison? in The Search for Government Efficiency. New York: Random House. Dye, Thomas. 1966. Politics, Economics and the Public. Chicago: Rand McNally. Ferejohn, John, Morris Fiorina, and Richard D. McKelvey. 1987. Sophisticated Voting and Agenda Independence in Distributive Politics Settings. American Journal of Political Science 31:169 193. Glazer, Nathan. 1975. Toward an Imperial Judiciary. The Public Interest 41:104 123. Graddy, Elizabeth. 1991. Interest Groups or the Public Interest Why Do We Regulate Health Occupations? Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 16:25 49. Grindle, Merilee S., and John W. Thomas. 1989. Policy Makers, Policy Choices, and Policy Outcomes: The Political Economy of Reform in Developing Countries. Policy Sciences 22:213 248. Kau, James B., and Paul H. Rubin. 1979. Self Interest, Ideology, and Logrolling in Congressional Voting. Journal of Law and Economics 22:365 384. Jenkins-Smith, Hank C., Gilbert K. St.Clair, and Brian Woods. 1991. Explaining Change in Policy Subsystems: Analysis of Coalition Stability and Defection over Time. American Journal of Political Science 35:851 880. Kalt, Joseph, and Mark Zupan. 1984. Capture and Ideology in the Economic Theory of Politics. American Economic Review 74:279 300. Kramer, Gerald H. 1972. Sophisticated Voting Over Multidimensional Choice Spaces. Journal of Mathematical Sociology 2:165 180. Kurland, Philip B. 1985. Public Policy, the Constitution, and the Supreme Court. Northern Kentucky Law Review 12:181 200. Manley, John F. 1983. Neo-Pluralism: A Class Analysis of Pluralism I and Pluralism II. American Political Science Review 77:368 383. Mills, C. Wright. 1956. The Power Elite. New York: Oxford University Press, 1956. Olson, Mancur, Jr. 1971. The Logic of Collective Action. Second Edition. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard

Polsby, Nelson. 1980. Community Power and Political Theory. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1963. Riker, William H. 1962. The Theory of Political Coalitions. New Haven: Yale Romer, Thomas, and Howard Rosenthal. 1979. Bureaucrats vs. Voters: On the Political Economy of Resource Allocation in a Direct Democracy. Quarterly Journal of Economics 563 587. Skocpol, Theda. 1979. States and Social Revolutions. New York: Cambridge Walker, Jack L., Jr. 1991. 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. 1987. Public Opinion and Policy Liberalism in the American States. American Journal of Political Science 31:980 1001. C. Policy Implementation(Organizational and Political Dimensions) Alchian, Armen A., and Harold Demsetz. 1972. Production, Information Costs, and Economic Organization. American Economic Review 62:777 95. Aldrich, Howard E., and Peter V. Marsden. 1988. Environments and Organizations. Pp. 361 392 in Neil J. Smelser (ed.), Handbook of Sociology. Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage. Bardach, Eugene. 1977. The Implementation Game. Cambridge: MIT Press. Cohen, Michael D., James G. March, and Johan P. Olsen. 1972. A Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice. Administrative Science Quarterly 17:1-25. Commons, John R. 1934. Institutional Economics. New York: Macmillan. DiMaggio, Paul J., and Walter W. Powell. 1983. The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields. American Sociological Review 48:147 60. Dranove, David, and William D. White. 1987. Agency and the Organization of Health Care Delivery. Inquiry 24:405 415. Eisenhardt, Kathleen M. 1989. Agency Theory: An Assessment and Review. Academy of Management Review 14:57 74. Elmore, Richard. 1978. Organizational Models of Social Program Implementation. Public Policy 26:185 228. Elmore, Richard. 1980. Backward Mapping: Implementation Research and Policy Decisions. Political Science Quarterly 94:601 616. Goggin, Malcolm L., Ann Bowman, James P. Lester, and Laurence J. O Toole, Jr. 1990. Implementation Theory and Practice: Toward a Third Generation. Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman/Little, Brown. Hannan, Michael T., and John Freeman. 1989. Organizational Ecology. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Hekathorn, Douglas D., and Steven M. Maser. 1987. Bargaining and the Sources of Transaction Costs: The Case of Government Regulation. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 3:69 98. Hill, Jeffrey S., and James E. Brazier. 1991. Constraining Administrative Decisions: A Critical Examination of the Structure and Process Hypothesis. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organizations 7:373 400.

Ingram, Helen. 1977. Policy Implementation through Bargaining: The Case of Federal Grants in Aid. Public Policy 25:499 526. Jensen, Michael C., and William Meckling. 1976. Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs, and Ownership Structure. Journal of Financial Economics 3:305 60. Knoke, David. 1990. Organizing for Collective Action: The Political Economies of Associations. Hawthorne, N.Y.: Aldine de Gruyter. Landau, Martin. 1973. On the Concept of a Self Correcting Organization. Public Administration Review Nov/Dec:533 542. Laumann, Edward O., and David Knoke. 1986. The Organizational State: Social Choice in National Policy Domains. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. Levin, Martin, and Barbara Ferman. 1986. The Political Hand: Policy Implementation and Youth Employment Programs. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 5:311 325. Lipsky, Michael. 1980. Street Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Service. New York: Russell Sage. Lynxwiler, John, Neal Shover, and Donald A. Clelland. 1983. The Organization and Impact of Inspector Discretion in a Regulatory Bureaucracy. Social Problems 30:425 436. McCubbins, Matthew D., Roger G. Noll, and Barry R. Weingast. 1987. Administrative Procedures as Instruments of Political Control. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 3:243 277. March, James G. and Johan P. Olsen. 1984. The New Institutionalism: Organizational Factors in Political Life. American Political Science Review 78:734 49. Mazmanian, Daniel, and Paul Sabatier. 1983. Implementation and Public Policy. Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman. Meyer, John W., and Brian Rowan. 1977. Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony. American Journal of Sociology 83:340 63. Moe, Terry. 1984. The New Economics of Organizations. American Journal of Political Science 28:739 777. Nakamura, Robert T., and Frank Smallwood. 1980. The Politics of Policy Implementation. New York: St. Martin s Press. Ouchi, William. 1980. Markets, Bureaucracy and Clans. Administrative Science Quarterly 25:129 141. Pfeffer, Jeffrey, and Gerald Salancik. 1978. The External Control of Organizations: A Resource Dependence Perspective. New York: Harper and Row. Pressman, Jeffrey, and Aaron Wildavsky. 1984. Implementation. Third Edition. Berkeley: University of California Press. Scholz, John T. 1991. Cooperative Regulatory Enforcement and the Politics of Administrative Effectiveness. American Political Science Review 85:115 136. Scholz, John T., Jim Twombly, and Barbara Headrick. 1991. Street Level Political Controls over Federal Bureaucracy. American Political Science Review 85:829 850. Scott, W. Richard. 1992. Organizations: Rational, Natural, and Open Systems. Third Edition. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall. Simon, Herbert A. 1991. Organizations and Markets. Journal of Economic Perspectives 5:25 44.

Weber, Max. 1968. Economy and Society. Three Volumes. Berkeley: University of California Press. Weingast, Barry R., and Mark J. Moran. 1983. Bureaucracy and Discretionary Congressional Control: Regulatory Policymaking by the Federal Trade Commission. Journal of Political Economy 91:765 800. Williamson, Oliver E. 1981. The Economics of Organization: The Transaction Cost Approach. American Journal of Sociology 87:548 577. Wilson, James Q. 1989. Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It. New York: Basic Books. Wolf, Charles Jr. 1979. A Theory of Nonmarket Failure: Framework for Implementation Analysis. Journal of Law and Economics 22:107 139. Wood, B. Dan, and Richard W. Waterman. 1991. The Dynamics of Political Control of the Bureaucracy. American Political Science Review 85(September), 801 828. III. Analysis of Policy Options A. Policy Instruments and Market and Non-Market Failures Arrow, Kenneth J. 1963. Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care. American Economic Review 53:941 73. Bailey, Elizabeth E., and William J. Baumol. 1984. Deregulation and the Theory of Contestable Markets. Yale Journal on Regulation 1:111 37. Barr, Nicholas. 1989. Social Insurance as an Efficiency Device. Journal of Public Policy 9:59 82. Boardman, Anthony E., and Aidan R. Vining. 1989. 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. 1985. When Government Programs Create Inequities: A Guide to Compensation Policies. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 4:178 95. Church, Thomas W., and Milton Heumann. 1989. The Underexamined Assumptions of the Invisible Hand: Monetary Incentives as Policy Instruments. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 8:641 657. Ellickson, Robert C. 1973. Alternatives to Zoning: Covenants, Nuisance Rules, and Fines as Land Use Controls. University of Chicago Law Review 40:681 781. Elkin, Stephen L., and Brian J. Cook. 1985. The Public Life of Economic Incentives. Policy Studies Journal 13:797 813. Fisher, Anthony C., John V. Krutilla, and Charles J. Cicchetti. 1972. The Economics of Environmental Preservation: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis. American Economic Review 62:605 619. Goldberg, Victor. 1976. Regulation and Administered Contracts. Bell Journal of Economics 7:426 48. Hansmann, Henry B. 1980. The Role of Nonprofit Enterprise. Yale Law Journal 89:835 898. Landes, William M. and Richard A. Posner. 1985. A Positive Economic Analysis of Products Liability. Journal of Legal Studies 14:535 567. Linder, Stephen H., and B. Guy Peters. 1989. Instruments of Government: Perceptions and Contexts. Journal of Public Policy 9:35 58.

Peltzman, Sam. 1976. Toward a More General Theory of Regulation. Journal of Law and Economics 19:211 240. Salamon, Lester (ed.). 1989. Beyond Privatization: The Tools of Government Action. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute Press. Sappington, David E.M., and Joseph E. Stiglitz. 1987. Privatization, Information, and Incentives. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 6:567 582. Tobin, James. 1970. On Limiting the Domain of Inequality. Journal of Law and Economics 13:263 277. Vickers, John, and George Yarrow. 1991. Economic Perspectives on Privatization. Journal of Economic Perspectives 5:111 132. Vining, Aidan R., and David L. Weimer. 1990. Government Supply and Government Production Failure: A Framework Based on Contestability. Journal of Public Policy 10:1 22. Weimer, David, and Aidan Vining. 1991. Policy Analysis: Concepts and Practice. Second Edition. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall. Wolf, Charles Jr. 1988. Markets or Governments: Choosing Between Imperfect Alternatives. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. B. Microeconomic Models Friedman, Lee S. 1984. Microeconomic Policy Analysis. New York: McGraw Hill. C. Benefit Cost Analysis Gramlich, Edward M. 1990. A Guide to Cost Benefit Analysis. Second Edition. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall. Kelman, Steven. 1992. Cost Benefit Analysis: An Ethical Critique. Pp. 153 164 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. 1982. Social Experimentation and Economic Policy. New York: Cambridge Langbein, Laura Irwin. 1980. Discovering Whether Programs Work: A Guide to Statistical Methods for Program Eevaluation. Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman, 1980. O Sullivan, Elizabethann, and Gary R. Rassel. 1995. Research Methods for Public Administrators. Second Edition. New York: Longman. Weiss, Carol H. 1972. Evaluation Research: Methods for Assessing Program Effectiveness. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall.