Political Decision-Making, Social Choice, Public Policy

19 Nov 2011 10:09

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See also Congress; Democracy; Judgment; Networks of Political Actors; Social Engineering

Recommended:
• 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
• Mark A. R. Kleiman, When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment
• Charles E. Lindblom, The Intelligence of Democracy
• Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom

To read:
• 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]
• Elaine Scarry, Thinking in an Emergency [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]
• Zolo, Democracy and Complexity