Week 15: 12-05-06

Policy and Decision Making Research

ENVS Grad Student panel

Brunner, R. D. 1991. The policy movement as a policy problem, Policy Sciences 24:65-98.

Wildavsky, A. 1985. The once and future school of public policy, The Public Interest 79:25-41.

Clark, T. W. 2002. The Policy Process: A practical guide for natural resource policy makers, Yale University Press.

For further reading:
DeLeon, P. 1998. Models of policy discourse: insights versus prediction, Policy Studies Journal 25:147-161.

Heilbroner, R. 1991. Economics as Universal Science, Social Research, 58:457-474.

Goedegebuure, L. and F. Van Vught, 1996. Comparative Higher Education Studies: The Perspective from the Policy Sciences, Higher Education, 32:371-394.

Jenkins-Smith, H. C. 1990. Analysis in practice: contexts and roles, Chapter 4 pp. 83-121 in Democratic Politics and Policy Analysis (Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole).

Kemmerer, D. L. 1948. Are the social scientists backward?, American Association of University Professors Bulletin, Autumn:477-492.

Kennedy, D. 1997. Academic Duty (Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA).

Majone, G. 1989. Evidence, Argument and Persuasion in the Policy Process (New Haven: Yale University Press).

March, J. G. 1978. Bounded rationality, ambiguity, and the engineering of choice, The Bell Journal of Economics, 9:587-609.

Scaff, L. A. and H. M. Ingram, 1987. The influence of theory on what we see, pp. 235-248 in The Political Context of Evaluation (Sage Publications, Newbury Park, CA).

Simon, H. A. 1985. Human Nature in Politics: The Dialogue of Psychology with Political Science, American Political Science Review 79:293n304.

Sundquist, J. L. 1991. Political scientists and public policy research, PS: Political Science and Politics, 24:531-535.

Torgerson, D. 1986. Between knowledge and politics: three faces of policy analysis, Policy Sciences 19:33 59

Tversky, A. and D. Kanheman 1981. The framing of decisions and the psychology of choice, Science, 211:453-458.

For further reading on the policy sciences:
Ascher, W. 1987. Policy sciences and the economics approach to a ‘post-positivist’ world, Policy Sciences, 20:3-9.

Ascher, W. 1987. The evolution of the policy sciences: understanding the rise and avoiding the fall, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 5:367-373.

Brunner, R. D. 1996. A milestone in the policy sciences, Policy Sciences 29:45-68.

Brunner, R. D. 1997a. Introduction to the policy sciences, Policy Sciences 30:191-215.

Brunner, R. D. 1997b. Teaching the policy sciences: reflections on a graduate seminar, Policy Sciences 30:217-231.

DeLeon, P. 1988. Advice and Consent: The development of the Policy Sciences, New York, The Russell Sage Foundation.

DeLeon, P. 1995. Democratic values and the policy sciences, American Journal of Political Science, 39:886-905.

DeLeon, P. and T. Steelman, 1999. The once and future public policy program, Policy Currents, 9(2):1-9

Eulau, H. 1969. The maddening methods of Harold D. Lasswell, Chapter 5, pp.119-137 in Micro-Macro Analysis: Accents of Inquiry (Chicago, IL: Aldine Publishing).

Falk, R. A.1995. Casting the spell: the New Haven School of International Law, The Yale Law Journal, 104:1991-2008.

Lasswell, H. D. 1970. The emerging conception of the policy sciences, Policy Sciences 1:3-14.

Lasswell, H. D. and M. S. McDougal, 1992. Jurisprudence for a Free Society: Studies in Law,
Science, and Policy, Volumes I and II (New Haven, CT: New Haven Press).

Scott, 1998. Thin Simplifications and Practical Knowledge: Metis, Chapter 9 pp. 309-341 in Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed.

Torgerson, D. 1985. Contextual Orientation in Policy Analysis: The Contribution of Harold D. Lasswell, Policy Sciences 18:241-261.J.