The following list represents suggested readings in support of the various courses offered at the undergraduate and graduate levels in this discipline. Books as well as periodicals are identified and provide a general overview of the topics in this subject area. The list is not meant to be comprehensive nor are all the items available either in-print or in one specific library or collection. The list, however, is meant to be a starting point for research and further information.

_________ (1991). Administrative analysis for local government: Practical applications of selected techniques. Athens , GA : Carl Vinson Institute of Government.

_________ (1996). Municipal benchmarks: Assessing local performance and establishing community standards. Thousand Oaks , CA : Sage Publications, Inc.

__________, and Grubbs, Joseph W. Public Administration: an Action Orientation . 4 th edition. Belmont , CA : Wadsworth/Thompson Learning, 2004.

__________. "Which Triangle" Public Choice Volume 96, Issue 3/4, September 1998

Adamany, D. (1973). "Law and Society: Realigning Elections and the Supreme Court." Wisconsin Law Review, 1973:790-846.

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Allison, G. T. (1971). Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis. Boston : Little, Brown and Company.

Ammons, D. N. (2002). Tools for decision making: A practical guide for local government . Washington , DC : Congressional Quarterly Press.

Ascher, W. (1978). Forecasting: An appraisal for policy makers and planners . Baltimore , MD : Johns Hopkins University Press.

Auerbach, A. J. (Winter, 1996). Dynamic revenue estimation. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 10, 141-158.

Baer, J. A. (1983). Equality Under the Constitution: Reclaiming the Fourteenth Amendment. Ithaca : Cornell University Press.

Ball, H. (2000). The Bakke Case: Race, Education and Affirmative Action. Lawrence : The University Press of Kansas .

Barker, L. J. and Jones, M. H. (1999). African Americans and the American political system (4 th ed.). Upper Saddle River , NJ : Prentice Hall.

Bennis, Warren , An Invented Life: Reflections on Leadership and Change . Addison-Wesley, 1993.

Berkley , George, and Rouse, John. The Craft of Public Administration. New York : McGraw Hill, 2004.

Bickers, K. N. and Williams, J. T. (2001). Public policy analysis: A political economy approach . Boston , MA : Houghton Mifflin.

Bosner, C. F., McGregor, E. B., and Oster, Jr., C. V. (2000). American public policy problems (2 nd ed.). Upper Saddle River , NJ : Prentice Hall.

Brisbin, R. A., Jr. (1997). Justice Antonin Scalia and the Conservative Revival. Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Carmeli, Abraha. "Introduction: Fiscal and Financial Crises of Local Governments." International Journal of Public Administration . Dec 2003. pp.1423-30.

Casper , J. D. (1976). "The Supreme Court and National Policy Making." American Political Science Review, 70:50-66.

Chayes, A.. (1976). "The Role of the Judge in Public Law Litigation." Harvard Law Review 89:7 (May):1281-1316.

Ciulla, Joanne and James Burns, Ethics: The Heart of Leadership . Praegar, 1998.

Collins, Paul (2001) Applying Public Administration in Development: Guideposts to the Future John Wiley.

Conway, M. M. (1994). Women and public policy . Washington , DC : CQ Press.

Cook, T. D. and Reichardy, C. S. (1979) (eds.). Qualitative and quantitative methods in evaluation research . Beverly Hills , CA : Sage Publications.

Cooper, Terry (1998) The Responsible Administrator: An Approach to Ethics for the Administrative Role, Fourth Edition, Jossey-Bass

Dahl, R. A. (1957). "Decision-Making in a Democracy: The Supreme Court as a National Policy Maker." Journal of Public Law 6:279-95.

Denhardt, Robert B. Theories of Public Organization . 4 th edition. Belmont , CA : Wadsworth/Thompson Learning, 2004.

Dresang, Dennis, Public Personnel Management and Public Policy 3 rd edition, New York : Longman, 1999.

Dubnick, Melvin. "Demons Spirits and Elephants: Reflections of the Failure of Public

Dye, T. R. (2002). Understanding public policy (10 th ed.). Upper Saddle, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Ely, J. H. (1998). "Gerrymanders: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly." Stanford La Review, 50:607.

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Frederickson, H. George (1996 ) The Spirit of Public Administration , Jossey-Bass

Funston, R. (1975). "The Supreme Court and Critical Elections." American Political Science Review, 69:795-811.

Garvey, Gerald. Public Administration: The Profession and the Practice .

Goodsell, Charles T. The Case for Bureaucracy: A Public Administration Polemic . Chatham , New Jersey : Chatham House, 3 rd . ed. 1994.

Gordon, Jacob and Samuel Dubois, Black Leadership for Social Change . Greenwood Press, 2000.

Gramlich, E. M. (1990). Benefit-cost analysis of public programs (2 nd ed.). Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall.

Griffin , Ricky Management 7 th Edition, Houghton Mifflin, 2002

Guess, G. M. and Farnham, P. G. (1989). Cases in public policy analysis . New York : Longman.

Haass, Richard N. (1999) The Bureaucratic Entrepreneur , Brookings Institution Press

Hacker, A. (1992). Two nations . New York : Scribner.

Harrell, A. T. (1978). New methods in social science research: Policy sciences and futures research . New York : Frederick A. Praeger.

Hatry, H. H., Blair., L., Fisk, D., and Kimmel, W. (1987). Program analysis for state and local governments (2 nd ed.). Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute.

Haveman, R., and Margolis, J. (1988) (eds.). Public expenditure and policy analysis (3 rd ed.). Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.

Hays, Steven W. and Richard C. Kearney. Public Personnel Administration: Problems and Prospects . New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1995. 3 rd Edition.

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Huddelston, M. W. (2000 ). The public administration workbook (4 th ed.).City, State: Addison-Wesley/Longman (possibly)

Hyman, D. N. (2002). Public finance: A contemporary application of theory to policy (7 th ed.). Mason, OH: South-Western.

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Kakabadse, Andrew, et al. " Ethics, Values and Behaviours: Comparison of Three Case Studies Examining the Paucity of Leadership in Government." Public Administration. 2003, Vol. 81 Issue 3, pp. 477-501.

Kennedy, R. (1997). Race, Crime, and the Law. New York: Pantheon Books.

Klingner, Donald E., and John Nalbandian. Public Personnel Management: Context and Strategies . Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: 3 rd . ed. 1993.

Langran, R. L. and Schnitzer, M. (2001). Government, business and the American economy .). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Lee Epstein, L. & Knight, J. (1998). The Choices Justices Make. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.

Lemay, Michael C. Public Administration: Clashing Values in the Administration of Public Policy (2002) Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thompson Learning.

Lindbolm, C. E. and Woodhouse, E. J. (1993). The policy-making process (3 rd ed.). Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.

Lombard, Judith. "Reinventing Human Resource Development: Unintended Consequences of Clinton Administration Reforms." International Journal of Public Administration. 2003, Vol. 26 Issue 10/11, p1103-31.

Lowery, David. "And Now For Something Completely Different: Public Choice and Redistribution in the Metropolis," http://www.indiana.edu/~workshop/wow2/publications/jun3899.pdf . Accessed September 21, 2003.

Lynch, T. D. and Smith, R. W. (2004). Public budgeting in America (5 th ed . ). Upper Saddle, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc.

Maltese, J. A. (1995). The Selling of Supreme Court Nominees. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Marshall, T. R. (1989). Public Opinion and the Supreme Court. Boston: Unwin Hyman.

Mason, A. T.& Stephenson, D. G., Jr. (2002). American Constitutional Law: Introductory Essays and Selected Cases. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

McKinney, J. B. & Howard, L. C. (1979). Public Administration: Balancing Power and Accountability. Oak Park, Il: Moore Publishing Company, Inc.

Meier, Kenneth Politics and the Bureaucracy (2000), Harcourt College Publishers Osborne,

David and Ted Gaebler (1993) Reinventing Government, Penguin Books.

Meir, K. J. and Brudney, J. L. (1993). Applied statistics for public administration (3 rd ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Inc.

Melnick, R. S. (1994). Between the Lines: Interpreting Welfare Rights. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.

Mezey, S. G. (2000). Pitiful Plaintiffs: Child Welfare Litigation and the Federal Courts. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.

Michelman, F. (1969). "Foreword: On Protecting the Poor Through the Fourteenth Amendment." Harvard Law Review, 83:7.

Mikesell, J. L. (2003). Fiscal administration: Analysis and application for the public sector (6 th ed.). Belmont, CA: Thomson Learning, Inc.

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Nice, David C., and Federicksen, Patricia. The Politics of Intergovernmental Relations . Chicago: Nelson-Hall Publishers, 1998. Oakerson, Ronald. "Governance Structures and Problem Solving in Metropolitan Areas," http://www.indiana.edu/~workshop/wow2/publications/jun2699.pdf . Accessed September 21, 2003.

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Oldfield, Kenneth . " Social Class and Public Administration." Administration & Society. September 2003. Vol. 35 Issue 4. pp. 438-63.

Oman, Ray, et al . "An Assessment of a Drastically Changed Federal Workplace in the United States." International Journal of Public Administration. 2003, Vol. 26 Issue 10/11. pp.1097-1102.

Osborne, David, and Gaebler, Ted, Reinventing Government.

Penner, R. G. (Spring, 2002). Dealing with uncertain budget forecasts. Public Budgeting & Finance, 1-16. R etrieved from EBSOHOST.

Perry, H. W., Jr. (1991). Deciding to Decide: Agenda Setting in the United States Supreme Court. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Perry, James L. Handbook of Public Administration (1996), Jossey-Bass

Phillips, Robert and James Hunt, Strategic Leadership A Multiorganizational Perspective , Quorum Books, 1992.

Rabin, J. Hildreth, W. B., and Miller, G. J. (Eds.)(1983). Budget management: A reader in local government financial management. Athens, GA: Carl Vinson Institute of Government.

Radin, Beryl A. "PART--Another Federal Performance Assessment New Approach, Same Problems." PA Times . September 2003, Vol. 26 Issue 9, p12. David H.

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Riley, Dennis D. 1993. Public Personnel Administration . New York, NY: Harper Collins College Publishers.

Robert B. Denhardt and Joseph W. Grubbs, Public Administration and Action Orientation , 4 th ed., Belmont, CA. Wadsworth/Thompson, 2003.

Rosenbach, William and Robert Taylor, Contemporary Issues in Leadership , Westview Press, 1998.

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Rosenbloom, James D. Carroll, and Jonathan D. Carroll. Constitutional Competence for Public Managers: Cases and Commentary. 2000.

Rost, Joseph, Leadership for the 21 st Century, Praeger, Publishers, 1993.

Rozell, Mark and William Penderson, FDR and the Modern Presidency: Leadership and Legacy , Praeger, 1997.

Rubenstein, R., Schwartz, A. E., and Stiefel, L. (September/October, 2003). Better than raw: A Guide to measuring organizational performance with adjusted measures. Public Administration Review, 63: 5, 607-615. Retrieved September 9, 2003, from EBSOHOST.

Rubin, I. S. (2000). The politics of budgeting : Getting and spending, borrowing and balancing ( 4 th ed.). New York: Seven Bridges Press, LLC.

Sabatier, Paul. Theories of the Policy Process . Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999.

Shadish, W., Cook, T. D. and Campbell, D. T. (2002). Experimental and quasi-experimental design for external validity. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.

Simonsen, B. and Robbins, M. D. (Spring, 2002). Measuring municipal borrowing costs: How missing cost information biases interest rate calculations. Public Budgeting & Finance, 46-59 . Retrieved November 24, 2003, from EBSCOHOST.

Sovereign, Kenneth L. Personnel Law . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1994. 3 rd ed.

Stone, A. and Harpham, E. J. (1982)(eds.). The political economy of public policy . Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications.

Stone, D. (1997). Policy paradox: The art of political decision- making . New York: W. W. Norton.

Strauss, D. A. (1995). "Affirmative Action and The Public Interest." The Supreme Court Review 1995:1-43.

Sunstein, C. R. (1995). Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech.  New York: The Free Press.

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Thompson, F.J. (1991) Classics of Public Personnel Policy . Pacific Grove, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co.

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