The Oxford Handbook of Classics in Public Policy and Administration

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The Oxford Handbook of Classics in Public Policy and Administration

Edited by Martin Lodge, Edward C. Page, and Steven J. Balla

Abstract

This handbook presents assessments of classic works in public policy and administration by an international collection of contemporary scholars. These classic works include books written by such illustrious intellectuals as Mancur Olson, Elinor Ostrom, and Herbert Simon. The list of contributors offering assessments of these classic works is impressive as well, featuring scholars such as Peter John, David Lowery, and Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. Each chapter of the handbook presents a classic work, lays out its treatment in the years and decades since its publication, and comes to an assessment of its place in the field of public policy and administration. The collection of classic works demonstrates the breadth of the field of public policy and administration, touching on topics ranging from mobilization and political participation to decision-making across types of organizations and levels of government. Although public policy and administration may not in some respects constitute a well-defined area of inquiry, this collection demonstrates that there is a core of classic works that have had a seminal impact in the field, broadly construed, over time and across national and continental boundaries. The collection also elucidates enduring interactions between public policy and administration and other social scientific disciplines, such as economics, sociology, and especially political science.

Keywords: public policy, public administration, classics, intellectual history, impact assessment, social science, political science

Bibliographic Information

Publisher:: Oxford University Press

Print Publication Date:: Mar 2015

ISBN:: 9780199646135

Published online:: Jul 2016

DOI:: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199646135.001.0001

Editors

Martin Lodge, editor
Martin Lodge is Reader in Political Science and Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research and teaching interests are in the comparative study of Executive Government and Regulation.

Edward C. Page, editor
Edward C. Page is Sidney and Beatrice Webb Professor of Public Policy, Department of Government, London School of Economics.

Steven J. Balla, editor
Steven J. Balla, is Associate Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Public Administration, and International Affairs at George Washington University. He is the author (with William T. Gormley, Jr.) of Bureaucracy and Democracy: Accountability and Performance. His research focuses on public participation in the making and implementing of public policy in the United States and China, the latter since serving as a Fulbright Scholar at Peking University in Beijing.

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Front Matter
- The Oxford Handbook of Classics In Public Policy and Administration
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
What Makes a Classic?: Identifying and Revisiting the Classics of Public Policy and AdministrationSteven J. Balla, Martin Lodge, and Edward C. Page
Herbert A. Simon, Administrative Behavior: A Study of Decision-Making Processes in Administrative OrganizationMichael Mintrom
David B. Truman, The Governmental Process: Political Interests and Public OpinionWyn Grant
Robert K. Merton et al., A Reader in BureaucracyEdward C. Page
Harold D. Lasswell, The Decision Process: Seven Categories of Functional AnalysisKarsten Ronit and Tony Porter
C. Wright Mills, The Power EliteWilliam Genieys
Charles E. Lindblom, “The Science of Muddling Through”Andrea Migone and Michael Howlett
Thomas R. Dye, Politics, Economics and the Public: Policy Outcomes in the American StatesMichael Goldsmith
Herbert Kaufman, The Forest Ranger: A Study in Administrative BehaviorLaurence E. Lynn, Jr.
E. E. Schattschneider, The Semi-Sovereign People: A Realist’s View of Democracy in AmericaDonley T. Studlar
V. O. Key, Jr., Public Opinion and American DemocracyChristopher Wlezien
Michel Crozier, The Bureaucratic PhenomenonPhilippe Bezes
Theodore J. Lowi, “American Business, Public Policy, Case Studies and Political Theory”Michael Moran
Aaron Wildavsky, The Politics of the Budgetary ProcessJoachim Wehner
Mancur Olson, The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of GroupsDavid Lowery
Theodore J. Lowi, The End of Liberalism: The Second Republic of the United StatesThomas T. Holyoke
Jack L. Walker, “The Diffusion of Innovations among the American States”David Levi-Faur
Albert O. Hirschman, Exit, Voice and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and StatesKeith Dowding
Graham T. Allison, The Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile CrisisSophie Vanhoonacker and Patrice Wangen
George J. Stigler, “The Theory of Economic Regulation”Christopher Carrigan and Cary Coglianese
Michael D. Cohen, James G. March, and Johan P. Olsen, “A Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice”Werner Jann
Anthony Downs, “Up and Down with Ecology: The ‘Issue-Attention’ Cycle”Kuhika Gupta and Hank C. Jenkins-Smith
Carol H. Weiss, Evaluation Research: Methods for Studying Programs and PoliciesKathryn E. Newcomer
Jeffrey L. Pressman and Aaron B. Wildavsky, ImplementationKai Wegrich
Oliver E. Williamson, Markets and Hierarchies: Analysis and Antitrust ImplicationsAndrew B. Whitford
Hugh Heclo, “Issue Networks and the Executive Establishment”Volker Schneider
Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public ServiceLucy Gilson
Richard Rose, Do Parties Make a Difference?Manfred G. Schmidt
John W. Kingdon, Agendas, Alternatives, and Public PoliciesScott L. Greer
Mathew D. McCubbins and Thomas Schwartz, “Congressional Oversight Overlooked: Police Patrols versus Fire Alarms”William F. West
Terry M. Moe, “The New Economics of Organization”Jason A. MacDonald
Mathew D. McCubbins, Roger G. Noll, and Barry R. Weingast, “Administrative Procedures as Instruments of Political Control”Sean Gailmard
Paul A. Sabatier, “An Advocacy Coalition Framework of Policy Change and the Role of Policy-Oriented Learning Therein”Paul Cairney
Fritz W. Scharpf, “The Joint-Decision Trap: Lessons from German Federalism and European Integration”Adrienne Héritier
James Q. Wilson, Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why they Do itWilliam T. Gormley, Jr.
Elinor Ostrom, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective ActionAmy R. Poteete
Christopher Hood, “A Public Management for All Seasons?”Per Lægreid
Ian Ayres and John Braithwaite, Responsive Regulation: Transcending the Deregulation DebateMartin Lodge
Frank R. Baumgartner and Bryan D. Jones, Agendas and Instability in American PoliticsPeter John
Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community: Empirical Foundations, Causal Mechanisms, and Policy ImplicationsMelissa J. Marschall
Peter A. Hall and David Soskice, Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative AdvantageBernhard Ebbinghaus
End Matter
- Index

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The Oxford Handbook of Classics in Public Policy and Administration

Edited by Martin Lodge, Edward C. Page, and Steven J. Balla

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