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Master Reading List for PhD Exam in Public Policy

(found at: http://www.unr.edu/cla/polisci/documents/Phd_Public_Policy_Reading_List.pdf)

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1. Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (2nd Edition)
by Graham T. Allison
 
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Politics, Economics, and Welfare: Planning and Politico-Economic Systems Resolved Into Basic Processes
by Robert A. Dahl
 
3. Who Governs?: Democracy and Power in an American City, Second Edition (Yale Studies in Political Science)
by Robert A. Dahl
 
4. Dilemmas of Pluralist Democracy: Autonomy vs. Control (Yale Studies in Political Science)
by Robert A. Dahl
 
5. Policymaking for Social Security
by Martha Derthick
 
6. Public & Its Problems
by John Dewey
 
7. An Economic Theory of Democracy
by Anthony Downs
 
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A Systems Analysis of Political Life
by Daniel Easton
 
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Politics: Who Gets What, When, How
by Harold Lasswell
 
10. The End of Liberalism: The Second Republic of the United States
by Theodore J. Lowi
 
11. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
by Joseph A. Schumpeter
 
12. The Power Elite
by C. Wright Mills
 
13. New Federalism: Intergovernmental Reform from Nixon to Reagan
by Timothy Conlan
 
14. Public Policy Theories, Models, and Concepts: An Anthology
by Daniel C. McCool
 
15. Theories of the Policy Process, Second Edition
by Paul A Sabatier
 
16. Micromotives and Macrobehavior
by Thomas C. Schelling
 
17. Public Policy: The Essential Readings
by Stella Z. Theodoulou
 
18. Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It (Basic Books Classics)
by James Q. Wilson
 
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The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy
by Gordon Tullock
 
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Institutional Economics: Its Place in Political Economy
by John R. Commons
 
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Organizing for Collective Action : The Political Economies of Associations (Social Institutions and Social Change)
by David Knoke
 
22. Managerial Dilemmas : The Political Economy of Hierarchy (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
by Gary J. Miller
 
23. Public Choice II: A Revised Edition of Public Choice (Cambridge Surveys of Economic Literature)
by Dennis C. Mueller
 
24. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
by Douglass C. North
 
25. Understanding the Process of Economic Change (Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
by Douglass C. North
 
26. The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, Second printing with new preface and appendix (Harvard Economic Studies)
by Mancur, Jr. Olson
 
27. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
by Elinor Ostrom
 
28. Understanding Institutional Diversity
by Elinor Ostrom
 
29. Analyzing Politics: Rationality, Behavior, and Institutions
by Kenneth A. Shepsle
 
30. A Government of Strangers: Executive Politics in Washington
by Hugh Heclo
 
31. New American Political System, 2nd Edition (AEI Studies)
by Anthong King
 
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The Theory of Political Coalitions
by William H. Riker
 
33. Policy Change and Learning: An Advocacy Coalition Approach (Theoretical Lenses on Public Policy)  
34. Mobilizing Interest Groups in America: Patrons, Professions, and Social Movements
by Jack L. Walker
 
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Politics of Regulations
by James Q. Wilson
 
36. A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving
by Eugene Bardach
 
37. Reframing Public Policy: Discursive Politics and Deliberative Practices
by Frank Fischer
 
38. Public Policy for Democracy
by Helen Ingram
 
39. Evidence, Argument, and Persuasion in the Policy Process
by Giandomenico Majone
 
40. Policy Design for Democracy
by Anne L. Schneider
 
41. Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making, Revised Edition
by Deborah Stone
 
42. Conducting Interpretive Policy Analysis (Qualitative Research Methods)
by Dvora Yanow
 
43. Agendas and Instability in American Politics (American Politics and Political Economy Series)
by Frank R. Baumgartner
 
44. After Disaster: Agenda Setting, Public Policy and Focusing Events (American Governance and Public Policy)
by Thomas A. Birkland
 
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Participation in American Politics: The Dynamics of Agenda-Building
by Roger W. & Elder, Charles D. Cobb
 
46. Terminating Public Programs: An American Political Paradox
by Mark R. Daniels
 
47. The Politics of Attention : How Government Prioritizes Problems
by Bryan D. Jones
 
48. Politics and the Architecture of Choice: Bounded Rationality and Governance
by Bryan D. Jones
 
49. Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies (Longman Classics Edition) (2nd Edition)
by John W. Kingdon
 
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Agenda Formation  
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