Public Policy
University of Virginia
Year 1996

The following list was the readings list given to students at the University of Virginia to prepare them for their comprehensive finals in 1996. 

General

• Baumgartner, Frank R., and Bryan D. Jones. 1993. Agendas and Instability in American Politics. Chicago: The university of Chicago Press.
• Bachrach and Baratz. 1962. "The Two Faces of Power." American Political Science Review 56:947-952.
• Brown, Lawrence D., James W. Fossett, and Kenneth T. Palmer. 1984. The Changing Politics of Federal Grants. Washington, DC The Brookings Institution.
• Campbell, Donald. 1973. "Reforms as Experiments." in Caporaso and Ross, Quasi-Experimental Approaches. Evanston: Northwestern University Press.
• Cobb, Roger W., and Charles D. Elder. 1981. "Communication and Public Policy." in Dan Nimmo and Keith Sanders, eds., Handbook of Political Communication. Beverly Hills: Sage. (Chapter 14 for a discussion of agenda constraints).
• Cobb, Ross and Ross.
• Cohen, Michael, James March, and Johan Olsen. 1972. "A Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice." Administrative Science Quarterly 17(March):1-25.
• Derthick, Martha. 1979. Policymaking for Social Security. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution.
• Derthick, Martha, and Paul J. Quirk. 1985. The Politics of Deregulation. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.
• Fuchs, Victor R. 1996. Individual and Social Responsibility: Child Care, Education, Medical Care, and Lonq-term Care in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Gramlich, Edward M. 1990. A Guide to Benefit-Cost Analysis. Chapter 1 and 3 required (pp. 1-8, 30-47), Chapters 2 and 4 receommended (pp. 9-29, 48-78).
• Ginsberg, et al. Symposium on "Theodore Lowi and Juridical Democracy." in PS: Political Science and Politics, December 1990, pp. 563-579.
• Greenberg, George D., Jeffrey A. Miller, Lawrence Mohr, and Bruce C. Vladek. 1977. "Developing Public Policy Theory." American Political Science Review 71:1532-1543.
• Heclo, Hugh. 1978. "Issue Networks and the Executive Establishment." in Anthony King, editor, The New American Political System. Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute, Chapter 3.
• John W. Kingdon. 1995. Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policy, Second Edition. New York: Harper Collins.
• John W. Kingdon. 1989. Congressman's Voting Decisions, Chapters 9-12 (pp. 225-296). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
• Landy, Marc K., and Martin A. Levin. 1995. The New Politics of Public Policy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Lindblom, Charles. 1959. "The Science of Muddling Through." Public Administration Review 14: 79-88.
• Lowi, Theodore. The End of Liberalism.
• Melnick, R. Shep. 1994. Between the Lines: Interpreting Welfare Rights. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.
• Mucciaroni, Gary. 1995. Reversals of Fortune: Public Policy and Private Interests. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.
• Okun, Arthur. 1975. Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution.
• Nakamura, Robert T. and Frank Smallwood. 1980. The Politics of Policy Implementation. New York: St. Martin's Press.
• Nathan, Richard. 1988. Social Science in Government. New York Basic Books.
• Olson, Mancur. 1982. The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities. New Haven: Yale University Press.
• Rhoads, Steven. The Economist's View of the World: Government, Markets, and Public Policy.
• Schultze, Charles. 1977. The Public Use of Private Interests. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution.
• Skocpol, Theda. 1992. Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
• Szanton, Peter. 19??. Not Well Advised. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, Ford Foundation.
• Tufte, Richard R. 1974. Data Analysis for Politics and Policy. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
• Walker, Jack. 1969. "The Diffusion of Innovation Among the American States." The American Political Science Review 66: 880 - 899
• Weimer, David, and Vining. 1992. Policy Analysis: Concepts and Practices. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
• Wildavsky, Aaron B. 1984. The Politics of the Budgetary Process, Fourth Edition. Boston: Little Brown.
• Wilson, James Q. 1973. Political Organizations, Chapter 16. New York: Basic Books.

Example Areas:

Tax and Welfare

• Steuerle, C. Eugene. 1992. The Tax Decade. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute.
• Danziger, Sheldon. 1994. Confrontinq Poverty: Prescriptions For Change. New York: Russell Sage Foundation; Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
• Bane, Mary Jo, and David T. Ellwood. 1994. Welfare Realities: From Rhetoric to Reform. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
• Ellwood, David T. 1988. Poor Support: Poverty in the American Family. New York: Basic Books.
• Nathan, Richard. 1993. Turning Promises Into Performance: The Management Challenges of Implementing Workfare. New York: Columbia University Press.
• Peterson, Paul. 1990. Welfare Magnets: A New Case for a National Standard. Washington, DC Brookings Institution.

Health:

• Fuchs, Victor R. 1986. The Health Economy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
• Granneman, Thomas W., and Mark Pauly. 1983. Controlling Medicaid Costs: Federalism, Competition, and Choice. Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute.