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Theory

Third Party Government/ Networks/Non-Profits

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

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

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.