Books to Check Out

In our efforts to provide the most current and relevant materials for our learning community, we have been collaborating with the staff of the F. W. Olin Library to increase its collection of public policy related materials. Since the Fall of 2001 we have acquired the following additions to our library:

Aaron, Henry J.  Can we say no? :  the challenge of rationing health care.  Washington, D.C.:  Brookings Institution Press, 2005

Ackroyd, Peter. Albion: the origins of the English imagination. Trafalgar Square, 2002.

Alexander, Ernest. How Organizations Act Together: Interorganizational Coordination in Theory and Practice. Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1995.

Ascher, Kate.  The works:  anatomy of a city.  New York:  Penguin Press, 2005.

Auerbach, Alan J, David Card and John M. Quigley, (eds).  Public policy and the income distribution.  New York:  Russell Sage Foundation, 2006

Baker, Tom and Jonathan Simon (eds). Embracing risk: the changing culture of insurance and responsibility. University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Bardach, Eugene. A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving. Seven Bridges Press, 2000.

Bates, Robert H., Avner Greif, Margaret Levi (et al). Analytic Narratives. Princeton University Press, 1998.

Begg, Iain and Brian Henry. Applied Economics and Public Policy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Berlin, Isaah. Proper Study of Mankind: an Anthology of Essays. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000.

Benardete, Seth. Encounters and reflections: conversations with Seth Benardete. ed. Ronna Burger. University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Bickers, Kenneth N., John T. Williams.  Public policy analysis:  a political economy approach.  Boston; New York:  Houghton Mifflin, 2001

Blau, David M. The Child Care Problem: an Economic Analysis. Sage, Russel Foundation, 2001

Boardman, Anthony Cost Benefit Analysis: Concepts and Practice. NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001.

Bogart, W. A. Conequences: the impact of law and its complexity. University of Toronto Press, 2002.

Braithwaite, Valerie and Margaret Levi, eds. Trust and Governance. Sage, Russel Foundation, 1998.

Braybrooke, David. Stategy of Decision: Policy Evaluation as a Social Process. Free Press, 1970.

Brennan, Timothy J., Karen L. Palmer, Raymond J. Kopp, Alan J. Krupnick, Vito Stagliano, and Dallas Burtraw. A Shock to the System: Restructuring AmericaÌs Electricity Industry. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 1996.

Brennan, Timothy J., Karen L. Palmer and Salvador A. Martinez. Alternating Currents: electricity markets and public policy. Resources for the Future, 2002.

Brint, Steven. In an Age of Experts: The changing role of professionals in politics and public life. Princeton University Press, 1994.

Brison, Smith J. Aftermath: violence and the remaking of the self. Princeton University Press, 2002.

Burt, Ronald S. Structural Holes: the Social Structure of Competition. Harvard University Press, 1992

Castells, M. The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. Vol. II: The Power of Identity. Oxford: Blackwell 1997.

Chase, Alston. Harvard and the Unabomber: the education of an American terrorist. 1st ed W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2003.

Coglianese, Cary and Jennifer Nash eds. Regulating from the inside: can environmental management systems achieve policy goals? Resources for the Future, 2001.

Cohen, David K. Learning Policy: When State Education Reform Works. Yale University Press, 2001.

Cook, M.A. Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong In Islamic Thought. Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Cook, Karen S. ed. Trust in Society. Russell Sage Foundation, 2001.

Craig, Stephen, C, and Martinez, Michael.  Ambivalence, politics, and public policy.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Daniels, Mark R. Terminating Public Programs: An American Political Paradox. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1997.

Delbanco, Andrew. Real American Dream: a meditation or hope. Harvard University Press, 2000.

deLeon, P. Democracy and the Policy Sciences. Albany, NY: State University of New York, 1997.

Dhanda, Kathy Kanwalroop, Anna Nagurney and Padma Ramanujam. Environmental Networks: A Framework for Economic Decision Making and Policy Analysis. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1999.

Dryzek, J. S. Discursive Democracy: Politics, Policy and Political Science. Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Dunn, William N. The Experimenting Society. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1998.

Eaton, Ruth. Ideal cities: utopianism and the (un)built environment. Thames and Hudson, 2001.

Eckstein, Barbara and James A. Throgmorton eds. Story and sustainability: planning, practice, and possibility for American cities. MIT Press, 2003.

Eley, Geoff and R. Suny, eds. Becoming National: A Reader. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Ellwood, David T. A Working Nation: workers, work, and government in the new economy. Russell Sage Foundation, 2000.

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Feminism and Politics. 2v. set Dartmouth Publications Limited, 1999 (International library of politics and comparative government)

Field, Marilyn J., Alan M. Jette and Linda Martin, (eds)  Workshop on Disability in America, a New Look:  summary and background papers:  based on a workshop of the Committee on Disability in America:  a New Look, Board on Health Policy.  Washington, D.C.:  National Academies Press, 2006

Fisher, Frank and John Forester, eds. The Argumentative Turn In Policy Analysis and Planning. Duke University Press, 1993.

Fishkin, James and Peter Laslett, (eds)  Debating deliberative democracy.  Malden, MA:  Blackwell, 2003

Flyvbjerg, Bent. Rationality and Power: Democracy in Practice. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Forsythe, Dall W. Memos to the Governor: An Introduction to State Budgeting. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1997.

Frederickson, H. George The Spirit of Public Administration. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1997.

Friedman, T. L. The Lexus and The Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1999.

Fung, Archon  Empowered participation:  reinventing urban democracy.  Princeton, N.J.:  Princeton University Press, 2004

Gastil, John and Peter Levine, (eds). The deliberative democracy handbook:  strategies for effective civic engagement in the twenty-first century. San Francisco:  Jossey-Bass, 2005.

Gigerenzer, Gerd and Reinhard Selton eds. Bounded rationality: the adaptive toolbox. MIT Press, 2002.

Goode, Judith and Jeff Maskovsky eds. The new poverty studies: the ethnography of power, politics, and impoverished people in the United States. New York University Press, 2001.

Goodwin, Jason. Greenback: the almighty dollar and the invention of America. Henry Holt, NY, 2003.

Greenfeld, Liah. The Spirit of Capitalism: Nationalism and Economic Growth. Harvard University Press, 2001.

Grogger, Jeffrey and Karoly, Lynn A.  Welfare reform:  effects of a decade of change.  Harvard University Press, 2005.

Gruber, Jonathan.  Public finance and public policy.  New York, NY:  Worth Publishers, 2005

Hacker, Jacob S. The divided welfare state:  the battle over public and social benefits in the United States.  New York:  Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Hajer, Maarten A. The Politics of Environmental Discourse. Oxford University Press, 1997.

Harris, Martha ed. Energy market restructuring and the environment: governance and public goods in globally integrated markets. University Press of America, 2002.

Harrison, Michael. Organizational Diagnosis and Assessment: Bridging Theory and Practice. Sage Publications, Inc., 1998.

Hindle,Tim. Guide to management ideas. Profile Books Limited, 2000.,

Hird, John A., Michael A. Reese and Matthew Shilvock (eds).  Controversies in American public policy. Belmont, CA:  Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2004

Holland, Suzanne, Karen Lebacqz and Laurie Zoloth, eds. The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate. Boston: MIT Press, 2001.

Hollander, Jack M. The real environment crisis: why poverty, not affluence is the environment's number one enemy. University of California Press, 2003.

Howard, Christopher.  The welfare state nobody knows:  debunking myths about U.S. social policy.  Princeton University Press, 2007.

International videoconference Peace in Action, hosted at Mills College on November 1st, 2003, videotape. (features public policy students)

Kamieniecki, Sheldon.  Corporate America and environmental policy:  how often does business get its way?  Stanford Law & Politics, 2006.

Kenney, Douglas S. ed.  In search of sustainable water management:  international lessons for teh American West and Beyond.  Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005.

Kingdon, J. W. Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies, 2nd ed. New York: Harper Collins. 1995.

Kleindorfer, Paul R., H. Kunreuther, and D. Hong, eds. Energy, Environment, and the Economy. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1996.

Kohn, Linda T. et al (eds). To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System. National Academy Press, 2000.

Lawless, Jennifer L., Fox, Richard L.  It takes a candidate:  why women don't run for office.  Cambridge University Press, 2005.

MacRae Jr., Duncan and Dale Whittington. Expert Advice for Policy Choice: Analysis and Discourse. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1997.

Majone, Giandomenico. Evidence, Argument, and Persuasion In the Policy Process. Yale, 1992.

Mattson, Kevin. Intellectuals in action: the origins of the new left and radical liberalism, 1945-1970. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002.

McCoy, Michael Dalton. Domestic policy narratives and international relations theory: Chinese ecological agriculture as a case study. University Press of America, 2000.

National Research Council Community and Quality of Life: Data and Tools for Informed Decision Making. National Academy Press, 2002.

Newman, Nathan. Net loss: Internet prophets, private profits, and the cost to the community. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002.

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O'Connor, Alice. Poverty Knowledge: social science, social policy, and the poor in twentieth-century U.S. history. Princeton University Press, 2001.

Olsen, Johan and B. Guy Peters, (eds). Lessons from Experience; Experiential Learning In Administrative Reforms In Eight Democracies. Scandinavian University Press, North America, 1996.

Orentlicher, David. Matters of Life and Death: Making Moral Theory In Medical Ethics and the Law. Princeton University Press, 2001.

Ostrom, Elinor and James Walker, eds. Trust and Reciprocity: Interdisciplinary Lessons from Experimental Research. Russell Sage Foundation, 2003.

Pawlick, Thomas. The Baringo kid: confrontations with Africa. University Press of America, 2002.

Percy-Smith, Janie, ed. Needs Assessments In Public Policy. Open University Press, 1996.

Portney, Kent E. Taking sustainable cities seriously: economic development, the environment, and quality of life in American cities. MIT Press, 2003.

Putnam, R. D. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000.

Quigley, John M. and Eugene Smolensky (eds) Modern public finance. Cambridge, Mass:  Harvard University Press, 1994

Richards, Robert J. The romantic conception of life: science and philosophy in teh age of Goethe. University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Roe, Emery. Except Africa: Remaking Development, Rethinking Power. Transaction Publishers, 1999

Roe, Emery. Narrative Policy Analysis: Theory and Practice. Duke University Press, 1994

Roe, Emery. Taking Complexity Seriously: Policy Analysis, Triangulation and Sustainable Development. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998.

Rosenblum, Nancy and Robert C. Post, eds. Civil Society and Government. Princeton University Press, 2002. (Ethicon series in comparative ethics)

Santas, Gerasimos Xenophon. Goodness and Justice: Plato, Aristotle, and the Moderns. Blackwell Publishers, 2001.

Skogan, Wesley and Kathleen Frydl, (eds)  Fairness and effectiveness in policing:  the evidence.  Washington, DC:  National Academies Press, 2004

Sen, Gita, Adrienne Germain and Lincoln C. Chen, eds. Population Policies Reconsidered: Health, Empowerment, and Rights. Harvard UniversityPress, 1994.

Sennet, Richard. Corrosion of character: the personal consequences of work in the new capitalism. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1998.

Sennett, Richard. Respect in a world of inequality. 1st ed W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2003.

Sterner, Thomas. Policy instruments for environment and natural resource management. Resources for the Future, 2001.

Stone, Deborah A. Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2002.

Sulkin, Tracy.  Issue politics in Congress.  Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Williams, Mark Eric. Market reforms in Mexico: Coalitions, Institutions, and the Politics of Policy Change. Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, 2001.

Wirtz, James T. and Larsen, Jeffrey A (eds):  Nuclear Transformations.  The new U.S. nuclear doctrine.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Yanow, Dvora. How Does a Policy Mean? Interpreting Policy and Organizational Actions. Georgetown University Press, 1996.