The links provided for each item on this list will lead you to a page that (in almost all cases) offers bibliographic information and the item’s pdf or url. In addition, you will see the abstract, an AI-generated summary, and any “Author’s Note”.
2020s:
- 2020: Dissecting the Semantics of Accountability and Its Misuse
- 2021: A Tribute to H. George Frederickson
- 2022: Herbert Kaufman Essays
- 2022: The Forest Ranger and the Case Study: Aspiration and Accomplishment
- 2023: Rendición de cuentas y sus metáforas: del foro al ágora y bazar
2010s:
- 2010: Accountable Agents: Federal Performance Measurement and Third-Party Government
- 2010: Toward a ‘Responsible’ Future: Reframing and Reforming the Governance of Financial Markets
- 2011: Accountable Governance: Promises And Problems (edited volume)
- 2011: Conclusion: Taking Stock and Moving Forward
- 2011: Introduction: The Promises of Accountability Research
- 2011: Move Over Daniel: We Need Some ‘Accountability Space’
- 2011: Public Accountability: Performance Measurement, The Extended State, And The Search for Trust (Monograph)
- 2011: Rethinking the Obsession: Accountability and the Financial Crisis
- 2011: The Pursuit of Accountability: Promise, Problems, and Prospects
- 2012: Imagining and Managing Organizational Evil
- 2013: Power and the Ethics of Reform
- 2014: Accountability as Cultural Keyword
- 2014: Barnard’s Regret: Zones of Accountability and the Limits of Authority
- 2014: The Ontological Challenge
- 2015: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND PUBLIC POLICY, 3rd edition (5 volumes)
- 2018: “Policy Connections” in Gitelson, Dudley & Dubnick, 12th edition
- 2018: Chapters in Gitelson, Dudley & Dubnick, 12th edition
- 2018: Demons, Spirits, and Elephants
2000s:
- 2000: Dialogue: Knowledge and Research (critical exchange)
- 2000: Morals and Movies: Energizing Ethical Thinking Among Professionals
- 2000: Spirited Dialogue: The Case for Administrative Evil: A Critique
- 2000: The Challenges of Civic Education
- 2001: In Defense of the Electoral College
- 2002: Postscripts for a ‘State of War’: Public Administration and Civil Liberties After September 11
- 2002: The Implications for Federalism
- 2003: Accountability And Ethics: Reconsidering The Relationships
- 2003: Nurturing Civic Lives: Developmental Perspectives on Civic Education — Introduction
- 2004/2005: A Framework for Examining Accountability and Value for Money in the UK’s Private Finance Initiative
- 2005: Accountability and the Promise of Performance: In Search of the Mechanisms
- 2005: Accountability Through Thick and Thin: Making Assessments and Making Cases
- 2006: Accountability and the Evil of Administrative Ethics
- 2006: Taking Tough Choices Seriously: Public Administration and Individual Moral Agency
- 2006: War Narratives: Framing Our Understanding of the War on Terror
- 2007 (2006): Pathologies of Governance Reform: Promises, Pervasions and Perversions in the Age of Accountability
- 2007: Sarbanes-Oxley And The Search For Accountable Corporate Governance
- 2007: Sowing and Reaping at the Big Dig: The Legacies of Neomanagerialism
- 2009: Aggressive Action: In Search of a Dominant Narrative
- 2009: All Mega-Projects are Local? Citizen Participation Lessons from the Big Dig
1990s:
- 1991: American Public Administration: Politics and the Management of Expectations (textbook)
- 1991: Public Policy and Economic Institutions (edited volume)
- 1993: Accountability and the Centrality of Expectations in American Public Administration
- 1993: State economic development policies and national economic growth
- 1994: A Coup Against King Bureaucracy?
- 1994: Editing the Policy Studies Journal and Public Administration Review
- 1994: Issues of Accountability in Flexible Personnel Systems
- 1995: Oklahoma City (editorial)
- 1996: Challenges to American Public Administration: Complexity, Bureaucratization, and the Culture of Distrust.
- 1996: Farewell from the Catbird Seat (editorial)
- 1998: Army Corps of Engineers
- 1998: Clarifying Accountability: An Ethical Theory Framework
- 1998: Customs Service
- 1998: Forest Service
- 1998 (2000): Accountability
1980s:
- 1981: [Review of] Promise and Performance: Choosing and Implementing Environmental Policy
- 1981: Government Regulation: Advice and Analysis
- 1981: Nationalizing State Policies
- 1982: Decentralization of Agriculture
- 1982: Regulatory Policy Analysis: Working in a Quagmire
- 1984: American States and the Industrial Policy Debate
- 1985: Industrial policy and the states
- 1987-2018: American Government: Myths and Realities (12 editions)
- 1987: Accountability in the public sector: lessons from the Challenger tragedy
1970s:
- 1974: The Planner’s Image: The Impact of Expertise On Development Planning and Policymaking (PhD Dissertation)
- 1976: Blaming the Planner: An Alternative Explanation of Development Program Failure
- 1977/1978: Comparing Policy Alternatives
- 1978: Three Approaches to Health Care
- 1979: Problems in U.S. Standard-Setting: The Implications of the Shift to Control Functions
- 1979: The Why and How of Policy Analysis