Political Decision-Making, Social Choice, Public Policy

11 May 2008 09:16

Kenneth Arrow, Social Choice and Individual Values [Full text free online]
David Braybrooke and Charles E. Lindblom, A Strategy of Decision: Policy Evaluation as a Social Process
Robert Dahl and Charles E. Lindblom, Politics, Economics and Welfare
Charles E. Lindblom, The Intelligence of Democracy
Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom

R. Michael Alvarez and John Brehm, Hard Choices, Easy Answers: Values, Information, and American Public Opinion
R. Douglas Arnold, Congress, the Press, and Political Accountability [Blurb, ch. 1]
Frank R. Baumgartner and Bryan D. Jones (eds.), Policy Dynamics ["draws on the most extensive data set yet compiled for public policy issues in the United States. Spanning the past half-century, these data make it possible to trace policies and legislation, public and media attention to them, and governmental decisions over time and across institution..." Full blurb]
Max Bazerman, Jonathan Baron and Katherine Shonk, You Can't Enlarge the Pie: Six Barriers to Effective Government [Blurb]
Jonathan Bendor, Sunil Kumar and David Siegel, "V. O. Key Formalized: Retrospective Voting as Adaptive Behavior", American Political Science Review submitted [preprint]
Yakov Ben-Haim, Information-Gap Decision Theory: Decisions under Severe Uncertainty
Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, "Homo Economicus and Zoon Politikon: Behavioral Game Theory and Political Behavior", forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis [PDF preprint]
Valerie Bunce, Subversive Institutions: The Design and the Destruction of Socialism and the State
John L. Campbell, "Ideas, Politics, and Public Policy," Annual Review of Sociology 2002
Daniel P. Carpeneter, Reputations, Networks, and Policy Innovation in Executive Agencies, 1862--1928
Matthew A. Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg, Downsizing Democracy: How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public
Michael X. Delli Carpini, What Americans Know About Politics and Why It Matters
Avinash K. Dixit, The Making of Economic Policy: A Transaction-Cost Politics Perspective
John Gastil, By Popular Demand: Revitalizing Representative Democracy through Deliberative Elections
Amihai Glazer and Lawrence S. Rothenberg, Why Government Succeeds and Why It Fails [Blurb]
Rajeev Gowda and Jeffrey Fox (eds.), Judgments, Decisions, and Public Policy [Blurb]
Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken Windows Policing [Blurb]
David M. Hart, "'Business' Is Not an Interest Group: On the Study of Companies in American National Politics", Annual Review of Political Science 7 (2004): 47--69
Susan Herbst, Reading Public Opinion: How Political Actors View the Democratic Process [Blurb]
Vincent L. Hutchings, Public Opinion and Democratic Accountability: How Citizens Learn about Politics [Blurb, ch. 1]
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro, Politicians Don't Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness [A nicely cynical thesis; I really ought to read this. Blurb]
Bryan D. Jones, Politics and the Architecture of Choice: Bounded Rationality and Governance [Blurb]
Richard R. Lau and David P. Redlawsk, How Voters Decide [Blurb]
Lupia and McCubbins, The Democratic Dilemma: Can Citizens Learn What They Really Need to Know?
Giandomenico Majone, Evidence, Argument, and Persuasion in the Policy Process
Marcus et al., Affective Intelligence and Political Judgment
Enid Mumford, Dangerous Decisions: Problem-Solving in Tomorrow's World
Diana C. Mutz, Impersonal Influence: How Perceptions of Mass Collectives Affect Political Attitudes
Max Neiman, Defending Government: Why Big Government Works
Samuel Popkin, The Rational Voter
Edward L. Rubin, Beyond Camelot: Rethinking Politics and Law for the Modern State [Blurb]
John D. Steinbruner, The Cybernetic Theory of Decision: New Dimensions of Political Analysis [Blurb]
Katherine Cramer Walsh, Talking about Politics: Informal Groups and Social Identity in American Life [Blurb]