Academic Guides: Doctoral Reading Lists for Public Policy & Administration: Doctor of Public Administration Reading List

Theory

Behn, Robert. Rethinking Democratic Accountability. Brookings, 2001.
Cook, Brian J. Democracy and Administration: Woodrow Wilson’s ideas and the Challenges of Public Management. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Frederickson, George H. The Spirit of Public Administration. 1996. Goodnow, Frank, J. Politics and Administration.
Goodsell, Charles T. The Case for Bureaucracy: A Public Administration Polemic. 4th ed., Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, 2004.
Gulick, Luther H. "Notes on a Theory of Organization." Papers on the Science of Administration. Eds. Luther Gulick and L.S Urwick.
Hummel, Ralph. The Bureaucratic Experience. 5th ed. 2007. Light, Paul. Tides of Reform. Yale University Press. 1997.
Lindblom, Charles. “The Science of Muddling Through.” Public Administration Review (1959).
Long, Norton E. "Power and Administration." The Polity. Ed. Charles Press.
Marini, Frank. Ed. Toward a New Public Administration: The Minnowbrook Perspective. 1971.
Mosher. Frederick. Democracy and the Public Service. (1989).
Ostrom, Vince. The Intellectual Crisis in American Public Administration. 2nd ed. 1989. Rohr, John A. To Run a Constitution: The Legitimacy of the Administrative State.
Lawrence, Kan. University Press of Kansas, c1986.
Romzek, Barbara and Melvin Dubnick. “Accountability in the Public Sector: Lessons from the Challenger Tragedy.” Public Administration Review 47.3 (May-June 1987): 227-238.
Shafritz, Jay M. and Albert C. Hyde. Classics of Public Administration. 6th Ed. Boston: Thomson Wadsworth, 2007.
Simon, Herbert A. Administrative Behavior: A Study of Decision-Making Processes in Administrative Organization. 3rd Ed. New York: Free Press, 1997.
Simon, Herbert A., Donald W. Smithburg, and Victor A. Thompson. Public Administration. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1991.
Waldo, Dwight. The Administrative State: A Study of the Political Theory of American Public Administration. 1946. 2nd Ed. 1993.
Weber, Max. Theory of Social and Economic Organization.
Wildavsky, Aaron. The New Politics of the Budgetary Process.
Wilson, Woodrow. “The Study of Administration.” Political Science Quarterly 2.2 (June 1887): 197-222.

Third Party Government/ Networks/Non-Profits

Agranoff, Robert and Michael McGuire. Collaborative Public Management: New Strategies for Local Governments. Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, 2003.
Boris, Elizabeth & Steuerle, Eugene (eds.), Nonprofits & Government: Collaboration and Conflict. 2nd ed. Washington: Urban Institute Press, 2006.
Donahue, John and Joseph Nye. Market-Based Governance: Supply Side, Demand Side, Upside and Downside. Brookings, 2002.
Goldsmith, Stephen and William D. Eggers. Governing by Network : The New Shape of the Public Sector. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2004.
Hood, Christopher. The Tools of Government.
O'Leary, Rosemary, ed. “Special Issue on Collaboration.” Public Administration Review (December, 2006).
Osborne, David and Ted Gaebler. Reinventing Government: How the Entrepreneurial Spirit is Transforming the Public Sector. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1992.
Powell, Walter and Steinberg, Richard (eds.), The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook. 2nd ed. New Haven: Yale UP, 2006.
Provan, Keith G. and H. Brinton Milward. “Do Networks Really Work? A Framework for Evaluating Public-Sector Organizational Networks.” Public Administration Review 61.4 (Jul. - Aug., 2001): 414-423.
Salamon, Lester (ed.), The State of Nonprofit America. Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2001.
Salamon, Lester M., ed. The Tools of Government: A Guide to the New Governance with the special assistance of Odus V. Elliott. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, Chapter One.

Public Management/Public Bureaucracy/Organization Theory

Chisholm. Coordination without Hierarchy.
Cohen, Michael, James March, and Johan Olsen. “A Garbage Can Model of Individual Choice.” Administrative Science Quarterly 17 (March 1972): 1-25.
Crozier, Michel. The Bureaucratic Phenomenon.
Derthick, Martha. Agency Under Stress: The Social Security Administration in American Government .
DiIulio, John. “Principled Agents: The Cultural Bases of Behavior in a Federal Government Bureaucracy.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory: J- PART 4.3 (July 1994): 277-318
Allison, Graham. Essence of a Decision. 1999.
Downs, Anthony. Inside Bureaucracy. Boston: Little Brown, 1967.
Goodsell, Charles T. The Case for Bureaucracy: A Public Administration Polemic.
Graber, Doris. The Power of Communication. 2006. Kaufman, Herbert. The Forest Ranger.
LaPorte, Todd and Consolini, Paula. “Working in Practice but not in Theory: Theoretical Challenges of High Reliability Organizations.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory J-PART 1.1 (Jan. 1993): 19-48.
Light, Paul. The Tides of Reform. Yale University Press, 1997.
Lipsky, Michael. Street Level Bureaucracy: The Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Services. 1980.
March, James G. and Herbert A. Simon. Organizations. 1993
Merton, Robert K. “Bureaucratic Structure and Personality.” Social Forces 18.4 (May 1940): 560-568.
Moore, Mark. Creating Public Value: Strategic Management in Government. Harvard Press, 1995.
Pfiffner, James. The Managerial Presidency. 2nd Ed. 1999.
Riccucci, Norma M. Unsung Heroes: Federal Execucrats Making a Difference. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, c1995.
Selznick, Philip. TVA and the Grassroots. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1949.
Wilson, James Q. Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It. Basic Books, 1989.

Public Policy: Process, Implementation, and Analysis

Bardach, Eugene. Getting Agencies to Work Together: The Practice and Theory of Managerial Craftsmanship. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1998.
Baumgartner, Frank and Bryan Jones. Agendas and Instability in American Politics. University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Birkland, Thomas A. After Disaster: Agenda Setting, Public Policy, and Focusing Events. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1997.
Bobrow, Davis B. and John S. Dryzek. Policy Analysis By Design.
Cobb, Roger W. and Charles Elder. "The Politics of Agenda Building: An Alternative Perspective of Modern Democratic Theory." Journal of Politics (November 1971).
DeLeon, Peter. "Evaluation and Program Termination." Policy Studies Review 2 (May 1983).
Kingdon, John. Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies. 2nd Ed. New York: Longman, 2003.
Lowi, Theodore. "American Business, Public Policy, Case Studies and Political Theory." World Politics 16 (1964).
Lowi, Theodore. The End of Liberalism. 2nd Ed. 1979.
Pressman, Jeffrey L. and Aaron Wildavsky. Implementation: How Great Expectations in Washington are Dashed in Oakland: Or, Why It’s Amazing that Federal Programs
Workat all, This Being a Saga of the Economic Development Administration as Told by Two Sympathetic Observers Who Seek to Build Morals on a Foundation of Ruined Hope. 3rd Ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.
Sabatier, Paul A., ed. Theories of Policy Process. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2007.
Schneider, Anne and Helen Ingram. “Social Construction of Target Populations: Implications for Politics and Policy.” The American Political Science Review 87.2 (June 1993): 334-347.
Weimer, David L. and Aidan R. Vining. Policy Analysis: Concepts and Practice.
Weiss, Carol. "Evaluation decisions: Is anybody there? Does Anybody Care?" Evaluation Practice 9.1 (1988): 5-19.
Weiss, C.H. and M.J. Bucuvalas. "Truth Tests and Utility Tests: Decision-Makers Frames of Reference for Social Science Research." American Sociological Review 45 (April 1980): 302-313.

Personnel

Ban, Carolyn and Norma M. Riccucci, ed. Public Personnel Management: Current Concerns, Future Challenges. 2nd Ed. New York: Longman, 1997.
Ingraham, Patricia. The Foundation of Merit: Public Service in American Democracy. 1995.

Budgeting

Rubin, Irene. S. The Politics of Public Budgeting : getting and spending, borrowing and balancing. 5th ed. CQ Press, 2005.
Schick, Allen. The Federal Budget: Politics, Policy, Process. Brookings, 2007.
Wildavsky, Aaron & Naomi Caiden. The New Politics of the Budgetary Process. 4th Ed. 2000, 5th Ed. 2003.

Politics

Clarke, Jeanne Nienaber and Daniel McCool. Staking out the Terrain: Power and Performance among Natural Resource Agencies. 1996.
Davis, Kenneth Culp. Discretionary Justice.
Golden, Marissa. What Motivates Bureaucrats? Politics and Administration during the Reagan Years. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.
Heclo, Hugh. Government of Strangers. 1997.
Lowi, Theodore. The End of Liberalism: Ideology, Policy, and the Crisis of Public Authority. New York: Norton, 1969.
McCubbins, Mathew D. and Thomas Schwartz. “Congressional Oversight Overlooked: Police Patrols versus Fire Alarms.” American Journal of Political Science 28.1 (Feb.): 165-179.
Meier, Kenneth J., and Laurence J. O’Toole, Jr. Bureaucracy in a Democratic State: a Governance Perspective. 2006.
Olson, Mancur. The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971.
Seidman, Harold, and Robert Gilmour. Politics, Position, and Power: From the Positive to the Regulatory State.

Ethics

Cooper, Terry. The Responsible Administrator. 5th Ed, 2006. Gortner, Harold. Ethics for Public Managers. 1991.
Rohr, John. Ethics for Bureaucrats. 1978, 1989.
Thompson, Victor. Without Sympathy or Enthusiasm: The Problem of Administrative Compassion. 1975.

Federalism

Beer, Samuel. "The Modernization of American Federalism." Publius (Fall 1973). Burgess, Michael. Comparative Federalism: Theory and Practice. Routledge, 2006.
Conlan, Timothy J. and Paul L. Posner, eds. Intergovernmental Management for the Twenty-First Century. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 2008.
Posner, Paul. The Politics of Unfunded Mandates. Georgetown 1998.
Rivlin, Alice M. Reviving the American Dream: The Economy, the States & the Federal Government.

Comparative Administration

Peters, B. Guy. The Politics of Bureaucracy: An Introduction to Comparative Public Administration. 2008.
Pollitt, Christopher and Geert Bouckaert. Public Management Reform: A Comparative Analysis. 2nd Ed. Oxford, NY: Oxford University Press, 2004.

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Doctor of Public Administration Reading List

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