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This section contains the readings for the course separated by themes. Wherever possible, the book citations below reflect the specific editions used in the course.

Barnard, Chester I. The Functions of the Executive. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780674328037.

Clark, Peter B., and James Q. Wilson. "Incentive Systems: a Theory of Organizations." Administrative Science Quarterly 6, no. 2 (September 1961): 129-166.

Wilson, James Q. "Notes Toward a Theory of Innovation." In Organizational Design and Research: Approaches to Organizational Design. Edited by James D. Thompson. Pittsburg, PA: Pittsburg University Press, 1971. ISBN: 9780822952220.

Selznick, Philip. Leadership in Administration: a Sociological Interpretation. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1984. ISBN: 9780520049949.

March, James G., and Herbert A. Simon. Organizations. 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Business, 1993. ISBN: 9780631186311.

Cyert, Richard Michael, and James G. March. A Behavioral Theory of the Firm. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Business, 1992. ISBN: 9780631174516.

Downs, Anthony. Inside Bureaucracy. Reissue ed. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780881337785.

Guillen, Mauro F. Models of Management: Work, Authority, and Organization from a Comparative Perspective. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780226310367.

Scott, W. Richard. Organizations: Rational, Natural, and Open Systems. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002. ISBN: 9780130165596.

Wilson, James Q. Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1990. ISBN: 9780465007844.

Drucker, Peter F. Concept of the Corporation. Second Revised ed. New York, NY: New American Library, 1983. ISBN: 9780451621979.

Sykes, Gresham M. Society of Captives. New York, NY: Antheneum, 1965, out of print.

Selznick, Philip. TVA and Grass Roots: a Study of Politics and Organization. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1980. ISBN: 9780520039797.

Kaufman, Herbert. The Forest Ranger: a Study in Administrative Behavior. Washington, DC: RFF Press, 1967. ISBN: 9780801803284.

Wilson, James Q. Varieties of Police Behavior: the Management of Law and Order in Eight Communities. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968. ISBN: 9780674932111.

Reiner, Robert. The Politics of the Police. 3rd ed. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780198765431.

Wilson, James Q. The Investigators: Managing FBI and Narcotics Agents. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1978. ISBN: 9780465035892.

Wilson, James Q., ed. The Politics of Regulation. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1982. ISBN: 9780465059683.

Roberts, Marc J. The Choices of Power: Utilities Face the Environmental Challenge. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981. ISBN: 9780674127807.

Hsiao, et al. "Economic Incentives and Organizational Realities: Managing Hospitals Under DRGs." Milbank Quarterly 65, no. 4 (1987): 463-487.

Wilson, James Q. Political Organizations. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1975. ISBN: 9780465059362.

Perrow, Charles. Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780691004129.

Drake, Alvin W., Stan N. Finkelstein, and Harvey M. Sapolsky. The American Blood Supply: Issues and Policies of Blood Donation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1982. ISBN: 9780262040709. [Red Cross chapter.]

Zald, Mayer N. Organizational Change: the Political Economy of the YMCA. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1970. ISBN: 9780226978505.

Builder, Carl H. The Masks of War: American Military Styles in Strategy and Analysis. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. ISBN: 9780801837760.

Ricks, Thomas E. Making the Corps. New York, NY: Touchstone, 1997. ISBN: 9780684831091.

Chisholm, David. Waiting for Dead Men's Shoes: Origins and Development of the U.S. Navy's Officer Personnel System, 1793-1941. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780804735254.

Sapolsky, Harvey M. The Polaris System Development: Bureaucratic and Programmatic Success in Government. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972. ISBN: 9780674682252.

———. Science and the Navy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780691078472.

Thompson, Roger. Brown Shoes, Black Shoes and Felt Slippers: Parochialism and the Evolution of the Post-War U.S. Navy. Newport, RI: Naval War College, 1995. Available from National Technical Information Service, Springfield, VA, p. 70.

Rochlin, Gene I., Todd R. La Porte, and Karlene H. Roberts. "The Self-Designing High-Reliability Organization: Aircraft Carrier Flight Operations at Sea." Naval War College Review (Autumn 1987).

Snook, Scott A. Friendly Fire: the Accidental Shootdown of U.S. Black Hawks over Northern Iraq. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780691005065.

Michel, Marshall. The Eleven Days of Christmas: America's Last Vietnam Battle. San Francisco, CA: Encounter Books, 2001. ISBN: 9781893554276.

———. Clashes: Air Combat Over North Vietnam, 1965-1972. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1997. ISBN: 9781557505859.

Worden, Michael R. Rise of the Fighter Generals: the Problem of Air Force Leadership, 1945-1982. Maxwell AFB, AK: Air University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780160613760.

Builder, Carl H. The Icarus Syndrome: the Role of Air Power Theory in the Evolution and Fate of the U.S. Air Force. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1994. ISBN: 9781560001416.

Halperin, Morton H., Priscilla Clapp, and Arnold Kanter. Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1974. ISBN: 9780815734079.

Kanter, Arnold. Defense Politics: A Budgetary Perspective. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1979. ISBN: 9780226423739.

Lucas, William A., and Raymond H. Dawson. The Organizational Politics of Defense. Pittsburgh, PA: International Studies Association, 1974.

Hendrickson, David C. Reforming Defense: The State of American Civil-Military Relations. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780801835506.