Proficiency Examination:
Core Readings for the Nature of the Field Examination

Alonso, W. (1960) "A Theory of the Urban Land Market," Papers and Proceedings, Regional Science Association, 6, p. 149-157.

Anderson, James. 1994. Public Policymaking: An Introduction. Houghton-Mifflin.

Bachrach, Peter and Morton Baratz. 1963. "Decisions and Non-Decisions" American Political Science Review 57:632-42.

Balla, Steven J. 1998. " Administrative Procedures and Political Control of the Bureaucracy." American Political Science Review 92: 663- 74.

Baumgartner, Frank R. and Bryan D. Jones. 1993. Agendas and Instability in American Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Berk, Richard A. et a1. 1992. "The Deterrent Effect of Arrest in Incidents of Domestic

Chubb, John E. and Terry Moe. 1990. Politics, Markets and America's Schools. Washington DC: The Brookings Institution.

Currie, Janet and Duncan Thomas. 1995. "Does Head Start Make a Difference?" American Economic Review 85 :341-64.

Foster, K. (2001) Regionalism On Purpose, Report prepared for The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA.

Gormley, William T. 1987. "Institutional Policy Analysis: A Critical Review" Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 6:153-69.

Greenstein, R. and W. Wiewel (2000) Urban-Suburban Interdependencies, Cambridge, MA: The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

Jenkins-Smith, Hank C. Gilbert St. Clair, and Brian Woods. 1991. "Explaining Change in Policy Subsystems: Analysis of Coalition Stability and Defection Over Time" American Journal of Political Science 35 :851-80.

John Brehm and Scott Gates. 1997. Working, Shirking and sabotage: Bureaucratic Response to a Democratic Public. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Keiser, Lael R. and Kenneth J. Meier. 1996. "Policy Design, Bureaucratic Incentives, and Public Management: The Case of Child Support Enforcement." Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 6: 337-364.

Kingdon, John W. 1995. Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies. Second edition. Boston: Little Brown.

Lindblom, Charles E. 1959. "The 'Science' of Muddling Through." Public Administration Review 19: 79-88.

Lipsky, Michael. 1980. Street Level Bureaucracy. Russell Sage Foundation.

Logan, J. and H. Molotch (1987) "The Social Construction of Cities," Chapter 1 in Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place, Berkeley: University of California Press, p. 1-15.

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Lowi, Theodore J. 1964. " American Business, Public Policy Case Studies and Political Theory," World Politics 16: 677- 715.

Meier, Kenneth J. et al. 1996. "The Impact of State Level Restrictions on Abortion." Demography 33:307-12.

Michael C. Munger, Analyzing Policy: Choices. Conflicts. and Practices. Norton, 2000.

Mintrom, Michael. 1997. "Policy Entrepreneurs and the Diffusion of Innovation. " American Journal of Political Science 41 :738- 770.

Moe, Terry M. 1982. "Regulatory Performance and Presidential Administration. I'. American Journal of Political Science 26:197-224.

Moe, Terry M. 1984. "The New Economics of Organization" American Journal of Political Science 28:739- 77.

Moe, Terry M. 1985. "Control and Feedback in Economic Regulation: The Case of the NLRB. 11 American Political Science Review 79: 1094-1116.

Mohr, Lawrence. 1995. Impact Analysis for Program Evaluation. 2nd edition. Sage

Olson, Mancur .1965. The Logic of Collective Action. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Ostrom, Elinor. 1990. Governing the Commons. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Ostrom, Elinor. 1991. "Rational Choice Theory and Institutional Analysis: Toward Complementarity." American Political Science Review 85:237-43.

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Rhoads, Steven E. The Economist's View of the World: Government, Markets, & Public Policy. Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Sabatier, Paul A. 1991. "Toward Better Theories of the Policy Process" PS: Political Science and Politics. 29:147-156.

Sabatier, Paul A. and Hank Jenkins-Smith. 1993. Policy Change and Learning: An Advocacy Coalition Approach. Boulder, CO: Westview.

Sabatier, PaulA. (ed.) 1999. Theories of the Policy Process. Boulder, CO: Westview.

Schlager, Edella. 1995. "Policy Making and Collective Action: Defining Coalitions Within the Advocacy Coalition Framework." Policy Sciences 28:243-270.

Schneider, Anne and Helen Ingram. 1990. "Behavioral Assumptions of Policy Tools." Journal of Politics 52:510-29.

Schram, Sanford F. et al. 1998. "Without Cause or Effect: Reconsidering Welfare Migration as a Policy Problem " American Journal of Political Science 42:(January), 210- 230.

Sharp, Elaine. 1994. "The Dynamics of Issue Expansion: Cases from Disability Rights and Fetal Research Controversies." Journal of Politics 56:919-39.

Stigler, George 1. 1971. "The Theory of Economic Regulation." Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science 2:3-21.

Stone, Deborah. 2002. Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making, Revised edition. Chicago: Norton.

Swank, Duane. 1992. "Politics and the Structural Dependence of the State in Democratic Capitalist Nations" American Political Science Review 86:38-54.

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Teitz, M and K. Chapple (1998) "The Causes of Inner-City Poverty: Eight Hypotheses in Search of Reality," Citiscape 3(3): 33-70.

Teske, Paul. 1991. "Interests and Institutions in State Regulation." American Journal of Political Science 35: 139-155.

Theodoulou, Stella Z. and Matthew A. Cahn. 1995. Public Policy: The Essential Readings. Prentice Hall.

Tiebout, C (1956) "A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures," originally published in Journal of Political Economy, October, pp. 416-424.

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Voith, R. (1998) "Do Suburbs Need Cities?," Journal of Regional Science, 38(3): 445-464.

Weingast, Barry R. 1984. "The Congressional-Bureaucratic System: A Principal-Agent Perspective (with Applications to the SEC)." Public Choice 44:147-91.

Weingast, Barry R., and Mark J. Moran. 1983. "Bureaucratic Discretion or Congressional Control: Regulatory Policymaking by the Federal Trade Commission." Journal of Political Economy 91 :765-800.

Wilson, James Q. 1980. The Politics of Regulation. New York: Basic Books.

Wood, B. Dan and Richard Waterman. 1994. Bureaucratic Dynamics. Boulder, CO: W estview .

Wood, B. Dan. 1988. "Principals, Bureaucrats, and Responsiveness in Clean Air Enforcements." American Political Science Review 82:213-34.

Wood, B. Dan. 1992. Modeling Federal Implementation as a System" American Journal of Political Science 36:40-67.

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